By MICHAEL FORSYTHE OCT. 12, 2015
HONG KONG — The 16-year-old son of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer is now living under house arrest in northern China after being snatched at a Myanmar border town last week as he was trying to escape to the United States, a family friend said.
Bao Zhuoxuan, the son of the prominent human rights lawyer Wang Yu, Continue reading
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October 07, 2015 8:23 AM
HONG KONG —A year ago, Hong Kong’s famously busy streets were shut down by pro-democracy protesters in the so-called “Umbrella Movement”, a moniker that came Continue reading
A Year On, Mixed Views on What Hong Kong Protests Achieved已关闭评论
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2015-10-08
Liu Xia (r) and rights lawyer Mo Shaoping (l) arrive at her brother Liu Hui’s trial in Beijing on April 23, 2013.
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Five years after being awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, activists are calling on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to release his wife Liu Xia, Continue reading
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015-10-07
Rights lawyers like Pu Zhiqiang (front right, in May 3, 2014 photo) are an endangered species in China.
Photo courtesy of China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD).
Dozens of Chinese lawyers have written to the country’s parliament calling for an end to legal requirements that they join their professional association, amid an ongoing crackdown on the embattled legal profession.
The letter calls for the repeal of Clause 15 of China’s Continue reading
Chinese Lawyers Call For The Abolition of Their Professional Body已关闭评论
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2015-10-02
Zhong Jinhua (R) and a colleague in Shenzhen in an undated photo.
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Zhong Jinhua, a former judge at the Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang who became a lawyer to escape political interference, arrived last month in the United States along with his family.
His arrival on Sept. 4 coincided with a nationwide police operation targeting human Continue reading
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By MICHAEL FORSYTHE OCTOBER 2, 2015 11:40 AM October 2, 2015 11:40 am
Johannes Chan, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, was rejected this week for a promotion, raising fears over Beijing’s influence.Credit Fai Lo/The Initium Media
The governing council of the University of Hong Kong rejected this week the nomination of Johannes Chan, a professor and former dean at the university’s law school, as one of five pro-vice chancellors, a post with influence over how Hong Kong’s most prestigious academic institution attracts and hires talent.
For almost a year, Mr. Chan’s candidacy for the post had been under attack by local newspapers sympathetic to China’s central government. It drew considerable attention Continue reading
Q. and A.: Johannes Chan on Academic Freedom in Hong Kong已关闭评论
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2015-09-30
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ctivist and businessman Huang Yongxiang in undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Chen Keyun.
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have released on ‘bail’ four activists who launched a T-shirt campaign in support of detained human rights lawyers, amid an ongoing crackdown on the country’s embattled legal profession.
Police in Guangdong’s Zengcheng city had detained Liu Yajie Continue reading
Chinese Activists Who Made Lawyer T-Shirts Released on ‘Bail’已关闭评论
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2015-09-28
Hong Kong protesters commemorate the anniversary of the Occupy Central movement, Sept. 28, 2015.
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One year after thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters used umbrellas to stave off pepper spray and tear gas in clashes with riot police, some 1,000 people rallied outside Continue reading
One Year On, Hong Kong Remembers The Umbrella Movement已关闭评论
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