The Jurist website reports tha…
Sun Jungong the spokesman for China’s Supreme People’s Court , announced 22 April that he had started writing his own blog in order to directly communicate with the public.
Sun said he will operate the blog in a semi-official capacity and that he would honestly answer questions posed there in an effort to make the judiciary more accessible to the public. Zhou Ze, a law professor quoted by a state-sponsored Xinhua report said the creation of the blog signaled an increase in transparency and fairness in the country’s courts.
The Jurist goes on to say
China has taken a less favorable stance on blogs that criticize the government and in January, Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) reported that Chinese activist and blogger Chen Qitang had been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison [press release; JURIST report] for disparaging remarks about the Chinese government he made on his blog [text, in Mandarin]. Chen made the comments while he was helping villagers in Sanshan Village, Nanhai District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province draft legal documents appealing the confiscation of their land by the local government
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/04/china-high-court-spokesman-starts-blog.php
English version of China Supreme People’s Court website at http://en.chinacourt.org/
Sun Jungong’s Blog (Mandarin Only) http://sunjungong.home.news.cn/blog/home.do
