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China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on Sunday announced plans to investigate Dai Chunning, deputy general manager of the state-owned China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) . According to media sources the investigation stems from Chunning's alleged...

The Chinese Ministry of Supervision on Sunday announced plans to investigate Jiang Jiemin, director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission . The investigation stems from Jiemin's alleged involvement in an undisclosed "serious discipline violation"...

China's Nanjing Intermediate People's Court issued a life sentence on Saturday to Huang Sheng, the former provincial deputy governor of Shandong Province, for accepting almost $2 million in bribes from 21 organizations and numerous individuals between 1998 and 2011....

Qiwei Chen, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

China's Communist Party Politics and Law Committee head Meng Jianzhu on Monday notified Chinese media sources of the nation's plan to end its 56 year-old "re-education through labor" program , which authorizes government entities to...

China adopted new rules on Friday which impose new restrictions on the country's Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and individual users. The rules, called the Decision to Strengthen the Protection of Online Information, were adopted by China's highest...

China's National People's Congress (NPC) on Friday passed amendments to a law allowing elderly parents to file suit against their adult children if they feel they have been neglected or abandoned by them. While the law mandates...

China's National People's Congress (NPC) on Friday adopted the nation's first mental health law to protect the rights of the mentally ill, according to a report by the country's state-run news agency. The new law is...

Chinese psychiatric facilities are detaining hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens against their will each year, and many detainees face abuse and human rights violations in the facilities, a human rights group said in a report [text, PDF; press...

JURIST Guest Columnist Phelim Kine, Senior Researcher of the Asia Division at Human Rights Watch, says that the increasing public challenges to the Chinese government's authority will only continue until its policies reflect a basic respect for human rights and...