China Orders Courts to Record, Video All Trial Proceedings

Ding Wenqi  |  Radio Free Asia China’s highest court has ordered courts at all levels to record video footage of all trials, but lawyers say they fear the video could be used to target them for defending their clients in court. The Supreme People’s Court issued new rules that come into effect on March 1 […]

Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Defend Teachings, Practitioners of Falun Gong in Court

Larry Ong  |  Epoch Times In unprecedented action in China, judge allows lawyers to base defense on Falun Gong principles When Zhou Xiangyang and Li Shanshan, both practitioners of Falun Gong persecuted for their beliefs, were last time in court on December 2015, the judge barred their lawyers from representing them, and refused to let the married Chinese […]

Chinese Lawyers Outraged as Colleague Is Dragged From Court

By Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times Over 200 lawyers in China have signed an open letter of protest against the authorities after a court in Jilin, a northern province of China, had the lawyer Zhang Keke physically removed from the court by police, when he attempted to mount a legal defense for his client, a practitioner […]