China – General
China – Hong Kong
“Hong Kong: New Security Law Full-Scale Assault on Rights”
(New York) – The Beijing-controlled Legislative Council in Hong Kong passed a new security law on March 19, 2024, that eliminates the last vestiges ...
Says it all!….. Chinese state TV reports passage of Hong Kong security law 20 minutes before vote
Radio Free Asia When Hong Kong’s Legislative Council passed a strict national security law under Article 23 of its mini-constitution, ...
OK Here It Is .. The Draft For The HK Security Law & As You Can Imagine It Is As Cheery As You’d Expect It To Be
As always HKFP is your best source Hong Kong has revealed the draft text of its new, homegrown security law – ...
HK: Ex-prosecutor resigned before being named as US sanctions target, Hong Kong justice department says
HKFP The department’s statement was issued after American lawyer Samuel Bickett – who was jailed in 2021 over assaulting a ...
Pro-democracy Radio DJ Tam Tak-chi loses bid to appeal ‘seditious’ speech conviction and jail term
HKFP The ruling in Tam Tak-chi’s appeal is expected to have far-reaching ramifications, with the verdict in the Stand News ...
HKFP – op-ed: “Article 23 is not an infringement on our liberties; rather, it serves as a safeguard against potential hazards to our way of life,”
Adrian Ho Adrian Ho graduated from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. He is a lawmaker, the Founder ...
China – Lawyers
IAPL: China: The 8th Anniversary of 709 Crackdown of Rights Lawyers: 10 Notable Events Over the Past Year
Preface: With the escalating crackdown on China’s human rights lawyers in recent years, the authorities have developed increasingly sophisticated means for ...
China fines Mintz $1.5 mln for ‘unapproved’ work, after raiding its Beijing office
Reuters.. BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) - China fined U.S. firm Mintz Group about $1.5 million for doing "unapproved statistical work", ...
First Dentons & Now Latham & Watkins .. Who’s Next?
The UK Law Gazette reports Latham & Watkins is closing its Shanghai office amid a slowing economy and a crackdown ...
NGOs Call on Governments & Lao Authorities to Ensure the Immediate Release of Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Lu Siwei
The Letter Lao authorities have reportedly arrested and detained well-known Chinese human rights lawyer Lu Siwei since 27 July 2023. We ...
Rights lawyer who was fleeing China has been arrested in neighboring Laos
IAPL report A Chinese rights lawyer stripped of his license for taking on sensitive cases has been arrested in the ...
‘709 Crackdown 2.0’
Statement Global call against China’s renewed crackdown on human rights lawyers Today, we mark China Human Rights Lawyers Day, in ...
