Commission Analysis

Opposition Growing to Proposed Dam in Southwest China
The Environment and Climate Change
Chinese Court Accepts Nation's First Tort Case for Injuries Caused by Environmental Pollution (story in Chinese)
The Environment and Climate Change
Chinese Official Suggests NGO Registration Requirements to be Relaxed
Civil Society
RFA Reports Jiang Yanyong Continues to be Subject to Surveillance and Restrictions
Criminal Justice, Freedom of Expression, Institutions of Democratic Governance
Xinhua Article Describes Internet Cafe Monitoring (story in Chinese)
Freedom of Expression
Chinese Localities Experimenting With More Open Methods of Selecting Officials
Institutions of Democratic Governance
Chinese Scholars and Officials Discuss "Major Revisions" to the PRC Criminal Procedure Law, Other Procedural Laws
Access to Justice, Criminal Justice
Beijing University Professor Believes He is not Being Allowed to Teach Because of His Criticism of Communist Party Department (story in Chinese)
Freedom of Expression
SPC President Xiao Yang Demands both Government for the People and a Judiciary for the People; Pushes Structural Reform of the Judiciary
Access to Justice
Audit Bureau Issues Data from Survey on Government Responses to a 2003 Audit Report
Institutions of Democratic Governance