Wife of Jailed Chinese Rights Lawyer Takes Protest to Supreme Court

Jia Ao and Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia The wife of a jailed human rights lawyer has staged a vocal protest outside China’s highest court during the Lunar New Year holiday, calling for redress for his incommunicado detention since July 2015. As the rest of China celebrated the Year of the Pig with their […]

Human Rights Watch: No Light Three Years After Chinese Activist’s Death

Cao Shunli died three years ago today in a Beijing hospital. The veteran human rights activist, best known for pressing the Chinese Communist Party to include input from independent civil society into China’s report for its human rights review at the United Nations, died after being held in a detention facility for several months without needed medical treatment.

Former China Supreme Court Judge Shines Light on Dark Judiciary

<!–[CDATA[ Larry Ong  |  Epoch Times When Xie Weidong graduated with a Masters degree in 1984, it seemed as though the Chinese Communist Party was taking baby steps toward implementing the rule of law. That was under the rule of Deng Xiaoping, the Party’s former paramount leader, as China was rebuilding and modernizing in the wake […]

President of China’s Supreme Court Admonishes Judges

<!–[CDATA[Lu Chen  |  Epoch Times Zhou Qiang, the top Chinese judicial official, gave an uncommon reprimand of justices around China at a conference recently, demanding that they adhere to due process and stop peremptorily expelling lawyers from the courtroom. It is unusual for someone like Zhou Qiang, a dyed-in-the-wool Party cadre whose job it is […]