Extralegal: U.S. Hits China on Dissidents’ Families
At the latest U.S.-China Human Rights Dialogue, the U.S. delegation made a special point to focus on the wives and families of political dissidents, particularly Liu Xia, the wife of Nobel Laureate Liu...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch: Enforced Disappearances a Growing Threat
Proposed changes to China’s criminal procedure law would provide extrajudicial detentions with “a thicker veneer of legality”, according to Human Rights Watch: Enforced disappearances by the Chinese...
View ArticleNew Mental Health Law: More Problems than Solutions?
China passed its first mental health law in October, after almost thirty years of efforts. The new law is intended to address issues such as patent privacy and wrongful institutionalisation but,...
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