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Very recently, Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong went incommunicado after a work trip to south central China. Jiang was in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, to look into the detention of fellow rights lawyer Xie Yang. In the late evening...

China has courts, judges and lawyers, but the Communist Party remains above the law. Two recent cases have dramatically illustrated how brutal and arbitrary punishment from the Chinese party-state can be, including its use of torture to silence dissent...

Now the Chinese are branding any news story they don't like as "fake news": China has launched a Donald Trump-style attack on foreign media, branding claims that a leading human rights lawyer was tortured by government agents “fake news”. Xinhua, the...

Zhao Weiliang China Aid Association (Cao county, Shandong—Aug. 7, 2014) Two Christians who were among 22 in coastal Shandong province taken into police custody while rehearsing hymns in June are to be formally arrested, their defense lawyer reported...

China has drawn international criticism over a crackdown on human rights lawyers this year, and there are reports that authorities may be planning even broader restrictions over the legal profession. Remin University law professor Chen Weidong, who...