Rule of Law

2022: Remember the Light the Young Have Shown Us Jiang Xue, January 3, 2023 In Beijing, at least 11 young people have been detained in connection with the “Blank Paper” (白纸抗议) protests, of whom two are confirmed to be journalists, another…

‘We Have a Duty to Leave a Record of This Tyrannical Era, Even at the Cost of Our Personal Liberty’: Chow Hang-tung’s Court Defense of the Hong Kong Alliance in the Case of Refusing to Submit Organizational Documents Demanded by the…

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 (Program starts at 2’10”) China Disbars Lawyers to Remove a Perceived Threat / 中國人權律师被剝奪執業權 In a very real sense, the 709 Crackdown is still ongoing. Over…

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…

Announcing the 6th China Human Rights Lawyers Day June 16, 2022 The sixth annual China Human Rights Lawyers Day will be held virtually on July 9, 2022, at 9 a.m. EST (U.S.). In 2017, human rights organizations in the U.S., Taiwan, and…

The Defenders — 20 Years of Human Rights Lawyers in China / 辩护人: 中国人权律师二十年 March 17， 2022 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS “Rights defense lawyers” emerged at the beginning of the 21st century. From their appearance, to the notorious 709 mass arrests…

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…