China – General

China – Hong Kong

Chinese Embassy Write Letter To The Guardian Defending Arrest & Trial of Jimmy Lai  telling paper to..."abandon colonial mentality and ideological prejudice"

Chinese Embassy Write Letter To The Guardian Defending Arrest & Trial of Jimmy Lai telling paper to…”abandon colonial mentality and ideological prejudice”

Bi Haibo of the Chinese embassy in the UK responds to a Guardian editorial about the trial of the media mogul ...
Lai Pleads Not Guilty

Lai Pleads Not Guilty

As always your best source of info on National Security trials is HKFP Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai ...
HKFP: Ex-Hong Kong lawyer Michael Vidler receives UK’s OBE honour for ‘services to justice and human rights

HKFP: Ex-Hong Kong lawyer Michael Vidler receives UK’s OBE honour for ‘services to justice and human rights

British lawyer Michael Vidler has been awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) honour for “services to Justice and to Human ...
Hong Kong Free Press: In U-turn, Hong Kong Department of Justice deletes national security case index from website only days after publication!

Hong Kong Free Press: In U-turn, Hong Kong Department of Justice deletes national security case index from website only days after publication!

Hong Kong’s Department of Justice (DoJ) has deleted an online database of national security cases, without explanation and days after ...
Jimmy Lai's Lawyers Tell UN They Believe Witness In Trial Was Tortured Prior To Giving Evidence

Jimmy Lai’s Lawyers Tell UN They Believe Witness In Trial Was Tortured Prior To Giving Evidence

Reuters Lawyers for Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai said on Thursday they had appealed to the United Nations expert ...
The Guardian: Courtroom drama is Hong Kong’s highest grossing Chinese-language film ever

The Guardian: Courtroom drama is Hong Kong’s highest grossing Chinese-language film ever

The Guardian writes Hong Kong’s highest grossing Chinese language film of all time is a courtroom drama exploring themes of ...

China – Lawyers

Amnesty - China: Unfair trials of prominent activists an attack of freedom of association

Amnesty – China: Unfair trials of prominent activists an attack of freedom of association

IAPL Two Chinese human rights activists are set to face grossly unfair trials behind closed doors this week after being ...
Follow the Trial of  Xu Zhiyong On Twitter

Follow the Trial of Xu Zhiyong On Twitter

William Farris @ Stanford has published the following wealth of information about the upcoming trial of lawyer Xu Zhiyong which ...
Rights Law Firm Daoheng Law Firm Has Left The Building

Rights Law Firm Daoheng Law Firm Has Left The Building

William Farris posted this to the China Law LIS yesterday. He believes that the closure of Daoheng Law Firm  really ...
Call To Release Lawyer, Tang Jitian

Call To Release Lawyer, Tang Jitian

Call on China to immediately release lawyer Tang Jitian, who has been extralegally detained since December 2021 Chinese human rights ...
Radio Free Asia Report: Henan rights activist in secret 'defamation' trial after visit to rights lawyer

Radio Free Asia Report: Henan rights activist in secret ‘defamation’ trial after visit to rights lawyer

Xing Wangli, a rights activist in the central Chinese province of Henan, has been put on trial behind closed doors ...
US Lawyer Goes To China - Spends 3 Months In Quarantine ... Then Goes Home !

US Lawyer Goes To China – Spends 3 Months In Quarantine … Then Goes Home !

Xue Liangquan, a Los Angeles-based lawyer, wanted to visit his family in China for Lunar New Year. Instead, Xue said ...