Chinese Courts Withdraw Falun Gong Cases Following Successful Legal Defense

NTD Six Chinese court cases involving adherents of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice banned by the communist authorities, were dismissed by the procuratorates in the provinces of Liaoning, Hebei, and Anhui. Eight people who had been unlawfully charged were released. It’s a rare—but increasingly common—act of legal clemency in the nearly 18 years of persecution […]

5400 Mainland China Lawyers Quit the CCP

<![CDATA[ Four lawyers arrested in China’s unprecedented crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists (Hong Kong free press) Between September 22nd 2014 through August 15th 2015, Ms. Liao Yanmei and her team of Tuidang volunteers called over 900,000 telephone numbers to reach Lawyers in Mainland China. The calls were made in an aspiring effort to […]

Nearly 10,000 Chinese Have Filed Legal Complaints Against Former Party Leader

<!–[CDATA[Larry Ong and Matthew Robertson  |  Epoch Times First they came in a trickle, then a flood: complaints by persecuted Chinese citizens, submitted through the regime’s own legal channels, accusing the former leader of the Communist Party, Jiang Zemin, of crimes against humanity and genocide. Whether the authorities act on them will be another matter, but the […]

China Child Abuse Cases Spark Further Calls For Legal Reform

<!–[CDATA[Xin Lin  |  Radio Free Asia China’s tightly controlled media reported on more than 400 cases of child sexual abuse last year, sparking renewed calls for change in a law that campaigners say waters down some offenses, a rights group reported. The Hubei-based Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch group compiled 425 media reports of sexual […]