Chinese Supreme Court Judge Disappears After Exposing Miscarriages of Justice

SUNNY CHAO | EPOCH TIMES The judge’s whereabouts are unknown after he gave interview saying that his supervisors had intervened in high-profile mining cases Wang Linqing, a judge working for the Chinese Supreme People’s Court, has reportedly gone missing after he exposed information about miscarriages of justice in a 2016 mining-rights case involving billions of […]

Former Justice Minister Calls for Release of Canadian Citizen Held in China

Limin Zhou  |  Epoch Times Irwin Cotler says Falun Gong persecution a ‘criminalization of innocence’ Former justice minister Irwin Cotler is calling for the immediate release of Canadian citizen Sun Qian, who has been illegally detained in Beijing for more than a year because she practises the traditional discipline of Falun Gong. “We call on the […]

Chinese Leader’s Call for Democracy, Justice, Clashes With Crackdown on Dissent

William Ide and Joyce Huang  |  Voice of America China’s leader Xi Jinping has pledged to make the Communist Party more responsive to public demands and to calls for democracy, fairness, and justice in a lengthy address to the 19th Party Congress. But at least three cases involving the harassment of lawyers this week and […]

Persecuted Pastor’s Wife Describes Hardships

China Aid Guiyang, Guizhou – The wife of a Christian pastor scheduled to stand trial later this month penned a letter on Nov. 30 describing the hardships their church has faced since his incarceration more than a year ago. Yang Hua, the pastor of the repeatedly persecuted Huoshi Church, was detained on Dec. 9, 2015, while […]

Upholding Justice in China—An Interview with Human Rights Lawyer Liang Xiaojun

Li Hui  |  Epoch Times Director of a law firm in Beijing. Graduate of the prominent China University of Political Science and Law. Son of a wealthy Chinese Communist Party cadre. Liang Xiaojun is all these things — yet he’s also willing to risk police surveillance and arrest to defend the disenfranchised in Chinese society: […]

Bringing a Former Chinese Dictator to Justice

Larry Ong  |  Epoch Times Those living in China on July 20, 1999, witnessed a campaign of suppression that seemed to have sprung from an earlier, darker era. Trucks circled Beijing’s streets, their blaring speakers warning citizens not to practice Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, a popular traditional Chinese spiritual discipline. State-run television channels featured grave […]

Five Hundred Police Crack Down on 300 Herders Protesting Refinery

SMHRIC More than 300 Mongolian herders from Ar-Hundelen Som of eastern Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s Zaruud Banner (“za lu te qi” in Chinese) staged a protest yesterday in front of the Huuliin-gol Alumina Refinery against the refinery’s pollution of the herders’ grazing land and serious threats to the health of both herders and livestock. As the […]