Analyses and Opinions

Chow Hang-tung’s Testimony During Preliminary Court Inquiry in the Hong Kong Alliance ‘Incitement to Subversion’ Case Chow Hang-tung, September 7, 2022 On September 2, 2022, a preliminary inquiry into the strength of the national security…

The 6th China Human Rights Lawyers Day: Recording and Full Text July 25, 2022 [youtube…

Chinese Lawyers’ ‘Original Sin’ — Speech by Lawyer Li Fangping on the 6th China Human Rights Lawyers Day Li Fangping, July 9, 2022 Li Fangping in 2014. Li Fangping started practicing law in China in the mid-1990s, first in Jiangxi and…

The Citizens Movement By Xu Zhiyong, translated by Andréa Worden, June 21, 2022 After being released from prison in July 2017, Xu Zhiyong devoted a year to writing “A Beautiful China” that was posted on his blog. This is Chapter 13 of the…

One Life for One Dream Xu Zhiyong, June 18, 2022 This autobiographical essay was written shortly before his arrest in 2013. It was translated into English and first published in Xu Zhiyong’s collection of essays “To Build a Free China – A…

Lawyers’ Struggles for Freedoms in China and the World – A Conversation With Professor Terence Halliday of The American Bar Foundation February 11, 2022 This wide-ranging, fascinating conversation was initially conducted on The American…

Testimony on Peng Shuai Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Yaxue Cao, February 3, 2022 [youtube…

The Gaslit Games: Xi Jinping, Thomas Bach, and António Guterres are Driving the Olympic Movement Toward a Shared Authoritarian Future Andréa Worden, February 2, 2022 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and IOC President Thomas Bach.…

Remembering Zhang Qing: From Her Daughter, Her Son, and Her Friend January 30, 2022 Zhang Qing (张青), mother of two children, wife of prominent Chinese rights movement activist Guo Feixiong (郭飞雄), died of cancer on January 10, 2022, in…

To This City, To That Person Ye Du, January 12, 2022 Ye Du (野渡) is a Guangzhou-based dissident writer. Chow Hang-tung (鄒幸彤) is a barrister and human rights defender in Hong Kong. Until its disbandment in September, 2021, she was one of…