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Trial of China's Bo not being held Monday - court official

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The trial of disgraced senior Chinese leader Bo Xilai, the central figure in the country's biggest political scandal in decades, will not be held on Monday as some media had...

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Freed Chongqing Prisoner Talks about Reeducation-through-Labor

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Translated interview- Of the hundreds of thousands of victims of China’s arbitrary, extralegal “reeducation-through-labor” system, a young man in Chongqing named Ren Jianyu (任建宇) was recently freed, thanks to the...

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5 months 6 days ago

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China Sentences Model to Jail Time for Dressing Up Like a Sexy Police Officer

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A Beijing-based model was sentenced earlier this week to nine months in jail for impersonating a police officer after she posted several photos of herself dressed in a revealing police...

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Kafka in Beijing

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A fascinating telling of the story of Long Meiyi, the daughter of "a Chinese vice mayor desperate enough to petition the Chinese central government for justice after his daughter said...

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Timekeeper sentenced to one year in jail for ringing exam bell 5 minutes early

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A man in central China's Hunan province has received a jail sentence after ringing a bell five minutes too early during a national college entrance exam, disrupting the exam for...

Substitute criminals: Ding zui

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“Replacement convicts” are not new. For centuries, the use of criminal substitutes was among the first things Westerners would mention when discussing China’s legal system. In 1899, Ernest Alabaster, a...

The curious case of a man arrested for downloading porn and its link with a local police scandal

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A man in Jilin was detained 15 days and fined 3,000 yuan ($471) for downloading pornographic videos to his home computer. It was found later that the reason behind his...

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Woman whose fetus died after suicide try gets bail

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An Indiana judge set bail Friday for a Chinese immigrant who has spent more than a year in jail on charges that she murdered her 33-week-old fetus by eating rat...

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12 months 23 hours ago

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Dying for justice - Suicide in modern China

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China has the highest rate of female suicide in the world, and one of the highest rates overall. While it's not the most pleasant topic, understanding traditional ideas about suicide...

Weibo - Chinese Democracy or Mob Rule?

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People's daily and other state news sources have been pointing to the influence of Weibo as a sign of China's shift toward democracy (here and here), but is social media...

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1 year 9 months ago

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