Commentary If it turns out to be true that China’s missing foreign minister is under “discipline inspection” by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) own internal party police, he will likely disappear into the little-known secret detention system known (to a few) as Liuzhi. These strange disappearances, often lasting several months, up to half a year,…
China’s Legal System Steps Up Use of Secret Detentions
News Analysis On the eve of Jan. 11, former lawyer and human rights defender Xie Yang was on a video call with Lyndon Li, a Chinese law student in England, when police suddenly appeared at his home, and the call ended abruptly. The news leaked out within a few days that Chinese authorities had taken…
The Demise of China’s Modest Judicial ‘Transparency’
Commentary China’s judicial system is busy deleting and removing data on persecution—scrubbing them from its database—which reverses the only positive development for China’s judiciary in years. One of the few highlights within the Chinese judicial system, or possibly the only one, has been a slow—yet noticeable—increase in “transparency.” The main part of this has been…
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