Simon Cheng’s TV ‘Confession’ Reveals the Truth About China’s Coercive Legal System

Peter Humphrey | Hong Kong Free Press Last week, I wrote a lengthy article about my fight against Beijing’s abusive practice of using forced and falsified televised confessions extracted from prisoners under duress and torture to pervert the course of justice. I remarked that, since my unprecedented filing of a regulatory complaint against Chinese state television in […]

Open Letter to Xi: China’s Entire Legal System ‘Defective’

VOA News A group of Hong Kong-based human rights defense lawyers issued an open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping Friday, calling for the release of colleagues detained by government officials more than a year ago. Known as the “709 Crackdown” of July 9, 2015, Beijing’s massive roundup of human rights lawyers and activists resulted […]