Criminal Justice
On August 19, 2010, public security officers from Beijing and Weinan municipality, Shaanxi province, detained Xie Chaoping, an author and journalist with Circumference, a magazine under the Procuratorate Daily according to a September 10 Beijing News article reprinted in Phoenix Net and a September 13 Democracy and Law Times article reprinted in Phoenix Net. Xie's wife said the PSB officials told her they suspected Xie of engaging in "illegal business activities," a crime under Article 225 of China's Criminal Law.
Authorities Use Annual Inspection To Intimidate Lawyers
Chongqing Executes Alleged Criminal Syndicate Boss Fan Qihang
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Statement of CECC Chairman Byron Dorgan and Cochairman Sander Levin Congratulating Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo
December 10, 2010
On October 25, 2010, Xinhua News Agency issued a news article (in Chinese) aiming to rebut foreign media criticism of the imprisonment of prominent Chinese intellectual and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo. Liu is a writer and democracy advocate who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in December 2009 for "inciting subversion of state power," a crime under Article 105, Paragraph 2, of the Criminal Law.
In late July, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) issued a circular (not publicly released) to local public security departments across China to end the practice of publicly parading suspected sex workers in public, according to a July 26 Dahe Net article. The Dahe Net article reports that the MPS circular calls on all police agencies to "resolutely ban" parading sex workers and other measures that "harm the human dignity of illegal workers." The parades, sometimes referred to as "perp walks," involve "the practice of publicly parading suspects or convicts in order to shame other criminals, drum up witnesses, or stir popular sentiment," according to a July 29 Dui Hua Foundation article.
The following is a translation prepared by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China of a Xinhua news article that appeared on the Xinhua Web site on October 25, 2010. The Chinese text was retrieved from the Xinhua Web site on October 25, 2010.
So-Called "Punishment Because of Speech" Is a Misreading of the Judgment in the Liu Xiaobo Case
--A Criminal Law Expert Talks About the Liu Xiaobo Case and Freedom of Speech
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Congressional-Executive Commission on China Releases 2010 Annual Report on Human Rights and the Rule of Law in China
October 15, 2010
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Statement of CECC Chairman Byron Dorgan and Cochairman Sander Levin on China's Newest Nobel Laureate: Liu Xiaobo
October 8, 2010