Disappeared Lawyers: Risk of Torture from Incommunicado Detentions
Since mid February six Chinese lawyers: Teng Biao, Jiang Tianyong, Li Tiantian, Liu Shihui, Tang Jingling and Liu Zhengqing have disappeared, presumably detained by the authorities.[more]
Barbarian evictions must end -- but without eviction and demolition, there would have been no 2008 Olympics and no modern China. [more]
The Rights Practice is deeply saddened by the death of its long-standing partner and friend Professor Cai Dingjian. [more]
Worker gets big compensation payout with legal aid help
Site bosses refused to adequately compensate a man who was paralysed from the neck down after a fatal work accident until legal workers stepped up to argue his case. [more]
Access to justice for most vulnerable
A four-and-a-half year project aimed at improving rural justice in China's Hubei province has come to an end. Villagers received free legal advice after rural legal workers were given training. It is hoped the scheme will soon be rolled out across the country. [more]
Brits abroad; two rights workers share experiences with China
Two British human rights workers flew to central China to share their expertise and learn more about the conditions Chinese NGOs and academics work under. [more]
Public Participation Meeting in Beijing
A conference looking at the level of public participation in China took place in Beijing just weeks before the nation celebrated 60 years of Communist Party rule.
The August 2009 event, called “EU-China Public Participation: Systems and Practice”, saw around 60 academics and experts from Europe and China get together to share ideas and the best ways to move forward. [more]