Skip to content Skip to navigation

Rule Of Law

You Are Fighting this Battle for 1.3 Billion People: Speech by Martin Lee (text and video)
September 24, 2014 [Translation by Human Rights in China] Editor’s note: Martin Lee, one of the founders of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party and a member of the drafting committee of Hong Kong’s Basic Law, gave this speech during the week of class boycott, September 22-26, 2014, by Hong Kong’s...
January 28, 2015
China Rights Forum
Hong Kong’s Civil Disobedience against “Mainlandization”
[Translation by Human Rights in China] During the spectacular Occupy Wall Street movement, there was never any talk of it being manipulated by “foreign forces.” When the even more powerful Sunflower Movement in Taiwan took place—during which radical students not only occupied the Legislative Yuan,...
January 28, 2015
China Rights Forum
Lawyer Says Court Violates the Law in Ruling on Zhang Lin’s Appeal without a Hearing
On October 20, the Bengbu Intermediate People's Court, Anhui Province, upheld the first instance trial verdict for activist , Zhang Lin ( 张林) . Zhang was found guilty of “gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place” by the Bengshan District People’s Court, Bengbu, on September 5 and was...
October 21, 2014
Case Update
Zhang Lin
Guo Feixiong and Sun Desheng Indictment
The indictment charges Guo and Sun with “gathering crowds to disrupt order in public places,” in connection with Guo’s alleged role in organizing street actions in January 2013 outside the gate of the Guangzhou-based publication Southern Weekly to support its staff’s protest against editorial...
June 19, 2014
Citizens' Square
Guo Feixiong
Guo Feixiong’s Trial Opened But Did Not Proceed
Today, the Guangzhou Municipal Tianhe District People’s Court opened the trial of rights activist Guo Feixiong ( 郭飞雄) , also known as Yang Maodong ( 杨茂 东) , and Sun Desheng ( 孙德胜) , but did not proceed as lawyers for the defendants did not appear in court in protest of what they alleged were...
September 12, 2014
Case Update
Guo Feixiong
Guo Feixiong’s Lawyers Will Not Attend Trial if Court Denies Access to Case Materials
In a statement issued the day before Guo Feixiong ’s trial, Guo’s lawyers, Chen Guangwu and Zhang Xuezhong, citing serious procedural violations by the court, request postponement of the trial and that the court allow them to make photo copies of all the case materials so that they can review them...
September 11, 2014
Citizens' Square
Guo Feixiong
Guo Feixiong’s Statement from Prison
In a statement one day before his trial, rights defense activist Guo Feixiong (aka Yang Maodong) alleges serious procedural violations by the prosecution, in particular, in its denial of his defense lawyers’ right to review case materials on eight CDs that include videos and photos. Such violations...
September 11, 2014
Citizens' Square
Guo Feixiong
Geng He Statement at National Press Club, Urging International Support for Gao Zhisheng (full text in Chinese compiled by Bei Feng)
In this statement, Geng He, wife of lawyer Gao Zhisheng, provides some details of what Gao suffered during his 8-year ordeal. On December 22, 2006, Gao was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, suspended for five years, on conviction of “inciting subversion of state power.” During the five years...
September 9, 2014
Citizens' Square
Gao Zhisheng
Complaint by Lawyer Cheng Hai about the Venue of His Administrative Hearing
In 2014, lawyer Cheng Hai defended New Citizens Movement activist Ding Jiaxi, who was prosecuted for calling for the disclosure of officials’ assets and education equality. During Ding’s trial, Cheng Hai withdrew from court to protest what he alleged as serious procedural violations. He...
August 31, 2014
Citizens' Square
Cheng Hai
Lawyers’ Statement on Plans by Changping District (Beijing) Judicial Administration Bureau to Suspend Lawyer Cheng Hai’s License
On August 22, 2014, lawyer Cheng Hai received a notice from the Changping District Bureau of Justice in Beijing informing him that the bureau planned to administratively suspend his license to practice for one year. The reason given for the suspension was that Cheng had “disrupted court order...
August 26, 2014
Citizens' Square
Cheng Hai

Pages

Subscribe to Rule Of Law