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02.01.22
Verdicts from China’s Courts Used to Be Accessible Online. Now They’re Disappearing.
Judicial transparency in China has taken a significant step backward in recent months. Beginning at least a year ago, China’s Supreme People’s Court has considerably scaled back the number of cases available on its China Judgments Online web portal...
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07.10.14Power Shift: Hopeful Signs in China’s Legal Reform Plan
Wall Street Journal
The Central Leading Group for Judicial Reform of the Chinese Communist Party announced the reform measures last month and an overview of a new five-year plan issued by the Supreme People’s Court on Wednesday signals a serious intention to implement...
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09.12.13Tweeting Rumors in China Can Now Land You 3 Years in Jail
Tech in Asia
The latest barrage from the government in China’s ongoing war on rumors is a Supreme Court document that announces any post “clicked and viewed more than 5000 times, or reposted more than 500 times” will be considered...
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07.11.13
China at the Tipping Point?
What will be the future of China’s authoritarian political system?Many predicted that China’s rapid development over the past several decades would inevitably lead to gradual liberalization. Economic growth was expected to generate a cascade of...
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05.17.13S.P.C. Directive on Handling Suits Related to Internet “Management”
Siweiluozi’s Blog
A translation of a directive that reveals, among other things, just how many layers of oversight, guidance, and coordination Chinese courts are subject to.
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02.26.13Top Prosecution Body To Add Second Review Of Death Penalty Sentences
South China Morning Post
Six years after the Supreme People’s Court regained the power to review death penalty sentences the Supreme People’s Procuratorate has now been formally tasked with providing external review of Supreme Court decisions to apply the...