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New | Chinese lawyer held in nationwide rights advocates crackdown released and reunited with family in US

Chen Taihe, 45, a Chinese lawyer and law professor who has been released after being detained in a crackdown on rights advocates last year. Photo: SCMP Pictures

4 Aug 2016 - 10:43AM

Dai Huang, labelled a ‘rightist’ for doubting Mao, dies at age 88

Dai Huang was a veteran Xinhua journalist who was labelled a ‘rightist’ for opposing the ‘deification’ Mao. Photo: SCMP

4 Aug 2016 - 10:43AM

Leading woman’s rights group to shut down as China tightens squeeze on civil society

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4 Aug 2016 - 10:43AM

Charity workers in China say NGOs being ‘pulled out by the roots’

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12 Jun 2017 - 1:03PM

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Update | Detained Swedish NGO worker Peter Dahlin’s colleague refutes accusation that his group endangered China’s security

In this image made from undated video released by China Central Television (CCTV), Peter Dahlin, a Swedish co-founder of a human rights group, speaks on camera in an unknown location. Chinese state television has on late Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, and early Wednesday, Jan. 20, aired a confession made by Dahlin, who said he had trained and funded unlicensed lawyers in China to take on cases against the government "in clear violation of the law." (CCTV via AP Video) CHINA OUT, TV OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVES, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

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Swedish NGO worker detained on ‘criminal coercive measures’ set up group to ‘endanger China’s security’, Beijing says

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New | Top law experts issue global call for China’s President Xi Jinping to release detained rights lawyers

Family members and lawyers of detained lawyers and their colleagues gather after another attempt to seek answers at the Hexi District Detention Centre in Tianjin on January 8, 2016. Six months ago, China's biggest-ever crackdown on human rights lawyers saw state agents question more than 130 attorneys and their colleagues. AFP PHOTO / FRED DUFOUR

4 Aug 2016 - 10:43AM

Chinese rights advocates Wang Yu, Bao Longjun formally arrested on subversion charges

FILE - In this April 18, 2015, file photo, Chinese lawyer Wang Yu speaks during an interview in Beijing. Several Chinese rights lawyers have been formally arrested, about six months after they were taken away. Li Yuhan, a lawyer for Wang, said Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, that Wang's mother had received formal arrest notices for both Wang and her husband, Bao Longjun, although the charges were not immediately clear. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

4 Aug 2016 - 10:43AM

Beijing ‘silencing’ outspoken rights lawyer with restrictions on suspended jail term

China's rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (L) speaks at a court session in Beijing in this still image from a December 14, 2015 video. The court convicted Pu, one of China's most prominent rights lawyers, on December 22, 2015 of "inciting ethnic hatred" and trouble-making with posts criticising the government, handing down a suspended sentence that means he avoids jail but will not practise law again. REUTERS/CCTV via Reuters TV ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

New | Convicted Chinese human rights lawyer to be released soon, but he remains far from free

China's rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (L) speaks at a court session in Beijing in this still image from a December 14, 2015 video. The court convicted Pu, one of China's most prominent rights lawyers, on December 22, 2015 of "inciting ethnic hatred" and trouble-making with posts criticising the government, handing down a suspended sentence that means he avoids jail but will not practise law again. REUTERS/CCTV via Reuters TV ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

4 Aug 2016 - 10:36AM

Price of conviction: Chinese rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang pays with suspended jail term over social media posts slamming the authorities

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4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

Update | Chinese rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang convicted, but to be released soon after receiving three-year suspended jail sentence

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4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

One person killed after explosion at Tsinghua University laboratory in Beijing

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18 Dec 2015 - 2:36PM

New | Chinese rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang rejects charges in heated trial over social media posts critical of Communist Party

epa05068375 (FILE) A file picture dated 28 December 2012 shows Chinese lawyer Pu Zhiqiang speaking to reporters outside the Chongqing Higher People's Court in Chongqing Municipality, China. According to media reports, Pu Zhiqiang, 50, is set to go on trial in Beijing on 14 December 2015, on charges of 'inciting ethnic hatred' and 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble.' Pu has been in detention since 06 May 2014 following his presence at a Beijing seminar calling for an investigation into the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989. EPA/YONGPING XU CHINA OUT

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Update | Chinese rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang goes on trial over social media posts criticising Communist Party

Chinese lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (inset), who once said his life mission was to fight for civil rights, went on trial on Monday at Beijing No 2 Intermediate People’s Court. Photos: Simon Song, Reuters

Pu Zhiqiang charged with ‘inciting ethnic hatred’ and ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ in Beijing court on Monday and faces up to eight years’ jail in what supporters call a witch-hunt

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Chinese courts will reject ‘Western pressure’ in rights lawyer’s trial, says state-run tabloid

Pu Zhiqiang has been charged with “inciting ethnic hatred” and “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”. His lawyers say the case again the rights attorney is politically motivated. Photo: EPA

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

Detained Chinese lawyer Pu Zhiqiang insists charges are trumped up as lawyers prepare for pre-trial meeting

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4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

Detained Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang gets pre-trial meeting date

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4 Aug 2016 - 10:36AM

Chinese media evokes image of Titanic to endorse reformist Xi Jinping keeping nation afloat

Xi Jinping meets Shenzhen residents in December 2012. Photo: Xinhua

6 Dec 2015 - 2:59AM

Veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu ‘had no choice’ but to confess guilt before early release from prison, legal experts say

Chinese journalist Gao Yu pictured during an earlier visit to Hong Kong. SCMP Pictures

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

Hopes of lighter sentence, medical parole for Chinese journalist Gao Yu in state secrets case appeal

Gao Yu's family is concerned about her health in jail. Photo: SCMP Pictures

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

Chinese President Xi Jinping pays tribute at centenary of late reformist leader Hu Yaobang

***ONE TIME USE ONLY, PLEASE CLEAR THE COPYRIGHTS BEFORE RE-USE - OTUO*** Hu Yaobang with his grandchildren in the 1980s. (Handout

20 Nov 2015 - 11:42PMvideocam

The battle of the century: Defining the legacy of China’s late liberal leader Hu Yaobang

Ms Cao from Hunan province pays respect to Hu Yaobang at the Fuhua Mountain Yaobang Memorial Park in Gongqingcheng, Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province, on Apr. 04, 2014. Many people come to pay respect for late General Secretary of Communist Party of China (CPC) Hu Yaobang during the Qingming Festival. 04APR14 Photo by Simon Song

20 Nov 2015 - 12:14AM

China to mark centenary of liberal leader Hu Yaobang, the man whose death sparked Tiananmen protests

Hu Dehua, youngest son of former general secretary of Communist Party of China Hu Yaobang, poses for a photograph during an interview at home in Beijing. 07APR14 == Photo by Simon Song ==

19 Nov 2015 - 9:01PM

'I could hear the baby cry. They killed my baby ... yet I couldn’t do a thing': The countless tragedies of China’s one-child policy

Two women and their babies pose for photographs in front of the giant portrait of late Chinese chairman Mao Zedong at the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing. Photo: Reuters

It was 25 years ago, but Mao Hengfeng still vividly remembers the piercing cries of her baby.

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

Detained lawyers, activists in China face serious risk of torture, says Amnesty International

In this undated photo supplied by Amnesty International, side handled and telescopic batons and spike batons are displayed at a police equipment exhibition, at an undisclosed location. Chinese production and export of police equipment primarily used for torture, such as electric shock wands and neck-and-wrist cuffs connected by a chain, has grown dramatically, enabling human rights violations at home and abroad, Amnesty International said in a report Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Amnesty International)

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

New | China's two-child policy 'too little, too late' demographers warn

Parents and nurses give newborn babies their baths in a hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province. Photo: Reuters

2 Nov 2015 - 4:55PM

Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan’s charm offensive wows the world but disguises a harsher reality, critics say

Peng Liyuan's outfits consistently earned her praise during the state visit to Britain. Photos: Reuters

4 Aug 2016 - 10:45AM

‘Sins of the father’: How China targets children of lawyers and activists as crackdown widens

A supporter donates money at an event where Chinese and American writers pushed for the release from house arrest of Liu Xia, the detained wife of Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, in New York. Photo: AP

4 Aug 2016 - 10:47AM

Detained human rights lawyer, Wang Yu, on Chinese state TV informed of 'failed attempt to smuggle son overseas'

Human rights lawyer Wang Yu was detained in July in a crackdown against civil rights activists.

Human rights lawyer Wang Yu and her husband Bao Longjun, who have been detained incommunicado for three months, were shown on state television in a distressed state yesterday, condemning a failed attempt to smuggle their teenage son out of China.

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