Human Rights and Rule of Law

China Makes Lawyers Swear Oath of Loyalty or Face Sanctions

China has stepped up pressure on its embattled legal profession, requiring more than 100,000 lawyers...Read More

December 7, 2018

Li Wenzu, wife of disappeared human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, has been awarded Sweden’s Ed...Read More

November 30, 2018

Authorities in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang have detained an award-winning documentar...Read More

November 28, 2018

Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu have formally arrested a prominent rights act...Read More

November 22, 2018

Authorities in Hong Kong on Monday put on trial nine prominent figures of the city’s 2014 Occu...Read More

November 21, 2018

Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have issued an “administrative punis...Read More

November 21, 2018

A day before the United Nations conducts a review of China’s record on human rights, several g...Read More

November 12, 2018

Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have installed facial recognition equipmen...Read More

November 4, 2018

A Maoist group backing a workers’ movement in the southern province of Guangdong on Thursday c...Read More

October 26, 2018

Authorities in the southeastern Chinese province of Guangdong have announced a probe into the defens...Read More

October 25, 2018