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01.23.18
Who’s to Blame for Hong Kong’s Weakening Rule of Law?
Rimsky Yuen, Hong Kong’s third Secretary for Justice, stepped down in early January. He leaves his department, and the city’s reputation for rule of law, markedly worse than they were when he took office in July 2012.According to the Department of...
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A court in China has sentenced 10 people to death, mostly for drug-related crimes, in front of thousands of onlookers before taking them away for execution.
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09.15.17China Used to Harvest Organs from Prisoners. Under Pressure, That Practice Is Finally Ending.
Washington Post
After years of denials, China now acknowledges that history and has declared that the practice no longer occurs — largely thanks to the perseverance of a health official who, with the quiet backing of an American transplant surgeon, turned the...
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08.31.17More Women Are in Hong Kong’s Prisons Than Anywhere Else. They Should Be Protected, Not Criminalized
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Hong Kong and Macau, two cities associated with wealth and riches, hold a dubious distinction in the justice system: they put women behind bars at a shockingly high proportion. Women comprise 20.8% of Hong Kong’s prison population, while in...