https://www.scmp.com/rss/323931/feed Nicholas Bequelin is East Asia Director at Amnesty International. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Behind its bureaucratic title, China’s new Supervision Law poses a systemic threat to human rights. The law places millions of people at the mercy of an extra-judicial system without the most basic safeguards to protect an individual’s liberty and security. The government has said the new system advantageously replaces the widely criticized and largely informal shuanggui system - an internal disciplinary system of the Chinese Communist Party. Yet it not only fails to address the defects of that... https://www.scmp.com/politics/nicholas-bequelin-supervision-law-poses-threat-human-rights/article/2137973?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/politics/nicholas-bequelin-supervision-law-poses-threat-human-rights/article/2137973?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:45:45 +0000 Does China need lawyers? It’s a fair question – since July 2015, we have documented over 240 cases of lawyers, legal activists and human rights defenders being detained, questioned, harassed or sentenced, as part of the largest state crackdown on the legal profession in China in decades. Many endured months of secret detention under a legal provision that allows police to hold state security suspects at a place of their choice, outside the formal detention system. Several were tortured and... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2064626/without-freedom-rights-lawyers-how-can-china-lay-claim-just?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2064626/without-freedom-rights-lawyers-how-can-china-lay-claim-just?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:45:00 +0000