Trump Attacks and the State of China’s Legal System
Following condemnation of “Western ‘constitutional democracy,’ ‘separation of powers,’ ‘judicial independence’ and other harmful ideas” by China’s top judge, and renewed criticism of the country’s...
View ArticleSteps Toward New Civil Code Bring Skepticism, Debate
This year’s gathering of the Two Sessions in Beijing brought early steps towards the long-awaited goal of a unified civil code, legally enshrining a huge range of citizens’ rights and responsibilities....
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Person of the Week: He Weifang
CDT is expanding its wiki beyond the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon to include short biographies of public intellectuals, cartoonists, human rights activists, and other people pushing for change in China. The...
View ArticleDraft Disciplinary Law Issued; Abuse Fears Raised
This week, Chinese authorities released for public consultation a draft of the new Supervision Law, which will mark a new phase in crusades against official corruption and for political unity. (An...
View ArticleParty Tightens Rule Over Law With Supervisory Reforms
The Party is making continued efforts to consolidate its position above the law and reiterate demands for loyalty from legal professionals, while aggressively moving against more of those who remain...
View ArticleNew Anti-graft Ministry Heightens Rights Concerns
The anticipated establishment of the National Supervision Commission—a new “fourth branch” of government which will oversee and extend President Xi Jinping’s ongoing anti-corruption drive—is adding to...
View ArticleLGBTQ+ Activists Fight For Rights Despite Legal Setbacks
Although homosexuality was decriminalized in 1997 and delisted as a psychiatric disorder in 2001, the Chinese LGBTQ+ community continues to face discrimination and marginalization from both the Chinese...
View ArticleFour Conflicting Statements on Xuzhou’s “Shackled Mother of Eight” Fail to...
The Xuzhou mother-of-eight who appeared in a viral video shackled and chained in a freezing shed now has a name and a hometown … or does she? On Thursday, the authorities in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province,...
View ArticleDearth of Official Information on Xuzhou’s Shackled Woman Spurs Citizen...
Managing the outcry over the shackled woman in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, has proven to be a difficult task for China’s censors. Weeks after video of the woman first showed her shackled by her neck and...
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On International Women’s Day, Chinese Citizens Continue to Pressure PSB,...
On International Women’s Day on March 8, Chinese citizens are continuing to draw attention to the everyday issues of women’s rights and gender equality, as well as specific cases of criminal...
View ArticleSenior British Judges Resign from Hong Kong’s Highest Court, Citing Erosion...
On Wednesday, the two most senior judges of the UK Supreme Court resigned from their overseas positions on Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal, the city’s highest court. The two judges’ resignations...
View ArticleTangshan Assault Case: Good Samaritans in China Fear That The Law Is Not on...
The brutal beating of four young women, after one of the women rejected unwelcome advances from a drunken male diner at a hotpot restaurant in Tangshan, Hebei province, continued to spark outrage on...
View ArticleAdministrative Proceedings—“People Suing Government”—Removed From Chinese...
China Judgments Online, a database of legal documents run by the Supreme People’s Court, has removed nearly all administrative proceeding verdicts from its website. It is a major retreat from an...
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2023’s Most Notable Censored Articles (Part Two: Migrant Poverty, Revised...
In part two of our look back at the most notable censored articles of 2023, as selected by CDT’s Chinese editorial team, we present five more articles on such diverse subjects as poverty among older...
View ArticleWords of the Week: “Criminalizing Creditors” by Accusing Them of “Picking...
Many entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens welcomed the news that provincial prosecutors in Guizhou are investigating a local government for arresting businesswoman Ma Yijiayi and her lawyers and...
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