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Hong Kong's top court urges alternative legal framework for same-sex couples

Hong Kong’s top court urges alternative legal framework for same-sex couples

HONG KONG, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's top court partially approved on Tuesday a landmark appeal by an LGBTQ ...
HK Cantonese language group closes after post accused of breaching security law

HK Cantonese language group closes after post accused of breaching security law

SCMP It's Han time - not going to go down well in HK we'd suggest. HONG KONG - A Hong ...
Paper: Legal scholar explores future of Hong Kong’s rule of law under ‘One Country, Two Systems’

Paper: Legal scholar explores future of Hong Kong’s rule of law under ‘One Country, Two Systems’

On Wednesday 23 August 2023, Associate Professor Shucheng (Peter) Wang from City University of Hong Kong gave a CPICL public ...
Statement: Hong Kong Authorities’ Ongoing Harassment Campaign

Statement: Hong Kong Authorities’ Ongoing Harassment Campaign

PRESS STATEMENT MATTHEW MILLER, DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON AUGUST 25, 2023 The United States strongly condemns the Hong Kong authorities’ ongoing harassment ...
Hong Kong court upholds minimum sentences for breaching Beijing-imposed security law

Hong Kong court upholds minimum sentences for breaching Beijing-imposed security law

ABC News (USA) reports A jailed university student who pleaded guilty to inciting secession in Hong Kong has lost his ...

China – Lawyers

Lawyers For Lawyers: 28 FEBRUARY 2021 Joint statement on the continuous house arrest of Jiang Tianyong

Lawyers For Lawyers: 28 FEBRUARY 2021 Joint statement on the continuous house arrest of Jiang Tianyong

Two years ago, on the 28th of February 2019, Chinese lawyer Jiang Tianyong was officially released from prison after serving a two-year prison ...
Yu-Jie Chen: 2020(Human Rights in the Chinese Administration of Justice 2020)

Yu-Jie Chen: 2020(Human Rights in the Chinese Administration of Justice 2020)

SOURCE:  https://thechinacollection.org/2020%e5%b9%b4%e3%80%88%e4%b8%ad%e5%9c%8b%e5%8f%b8%e6%b3%95%e4%ba%ba%e6%ac%8a%e8%a7%80%e5%af%9f%e3%80%89human-rights-chinese-administration-justice-2020/ He writes... Here is my piece on human rights in the Chinese administration of justice in 2020 (in ...
NPR Report: 'Where No One Dares Speak Up': China Disbars Lawyers On Sensitive Cases

NPR Report: ‘Where No One Dares Speak Up’: China Disbars Lawyers On Sensitive Cases

Fantastic to see NPR cover the subject - and unsurprisingly it's a great piece too. For most of the last ...
SCMP Opinion Piece:  Revoking of lawyers’ licences creates a chilling effect

SCMP Opinion Piece: Revoking of lawyers’ licences creates a chilling effect

The move by mainland authorities against the most outspoken legal defenders of the 12 Hong Kong activists does nothing to ...
China rights activist missing after being stopped at airport

China rights activist missing after being stopped at airport

Authorities have given no word on the status of Chinese legal rights activist Guo Feixiong after he was blocked from ...