Lawyer's Trial Renews Rule-Of-Law Concerns In China – China Rants

Liu Li's 5-month-old daughter has been the rebirth of hope for her family. The 42-year-old resident of Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, is among thousands of women having second children after losing their first in the 2008 magnitude-8.0 earthquake.

During Tibet's history, it has existed as a part of successive Chinese dynasties. At various times from the 1640s until 1950s, a government nominally headed by the Dalai Lamas, a line of spiritual leaders, ruled a large portion of the Tibetan region. During most of this period, the Tibetan administration was subordinate to the Chinese empire of the Qing Dynasty.

The urban housing demolition regulation that has been under fire ever since a woman committed suicide in a desperate bid to stop the destruction of her home should have been taken off the books more than two years ago, according to a leading legislator, Liang Huixin, a member of the Law Committee of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC)

On Tuesday evening, Liu Xiaoyuan, who has acted as a lawyer for family of Yang Jia, announced on his blog that Yang will be executed within a week. Yang Jia’s mother told him that around 7pm, she was visited two officials from the Shanghai Higher People’s Court who notified her that the Supreme People’s Court had approved the death sentence for her son.