JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday announced multiple criminal charges against citizens of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The defendants allegedly tried to obtain US technology and equipment to send to China. They also attempted to stop protests in the US critical of the PRC.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Amendment XI was added to Article 355 of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China, a provision which originally punished the act of providing addictive narcotics to another person. The post China amends criminal laws in latest anti-doping measure appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As a party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide , China has a responsibility “to prevent and to punish” genocide, but the opinion notes that no efforts in that direction are known. The English barristers’ opinion is in line with international conclusions.

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JURIST

MAY 19, 2024

Tang Renjian, China’s Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, is under investigation for violations of discipline and law, the country’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) announced on Saturday.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

” There have been mounting concerns over concentration camps in western China holding Uyghur Muslims, condemning them to forced labor in the cotton mills.

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JURIST

JULY 26, 2021

Noting that domestic authorities have thus far rejected his pleas to distance themselves from war criminals, Inzko said that he could not in good conscience end his term in the current circumstances and that it would be unfair to his successor if he leaves without taking action.

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JURIST

MAY 29, 2021

The Hong Kong District Court has sentenced 10 pro-democracy activists to jail on charges under the new national security law Friday. The activists were charged with several unauthorized assembly offenses for protesting in Hong Kong during China’s 70th anniversary.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

They said that the bill is in response to the People’s Republic of China’s “draconian national security law.” ” The controversial law has been met with international criticism. ” China retaliated and imposed sanctions on several US citizens, including Rubio.

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2021

Beijing imposed the national security law last year after a year of near daily protests against an extradition law amendment that would have established mechanisms for prisoner transfers to mainland China. The National Security Law was drafted in response and enacted through promulgation, bypassing local legislation.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Featuring the reports from the most recent IACL/AIDC General Congress in Asuncin, the volume provides the reader with unique insights by renowned legal scholars into the practices of 14 national jurisdictions ( inter alia China, Germany, Japan, Korea, UK, U.S.) and the the European Union (EU).

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JURIST

APRIL 6, 2023

A concern for many was that China, which has ramped up public support for Russia recently, voted no. It also came with several other conditions, such as requiring an oral update to the Council upon its next meeting on its findings as well as a report to the General Assembly in September.

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2022

However, such a mechanism is not an option for the ICC because it must adhere to the principles and norms of international criminal law at every stage of the process, from gaining custody to enforcing a sentence.

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LLRX

JANUARY 9, 2022

Four highlights from this week : The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire; To catch an insurrectionist: Facebook and Google are helping the FBI find January 6 rioters; China harvests masses of data on Western targets, documents show; and.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Ayer Chair in Business Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. China has been critical of U.S. In February, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a report entitled “ The U.S. But China also applies its law extraterritorially based on effects.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Rights organizations decried the four year prison sentence handed down to Zhang Zhan, a citizen-journalist, by a Chinese court on Monday. She was found guilty of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” charges sometimes used by authorities to quell dissent.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Hong Kong’s High Court on Thursday denied another bail application made by Beijing critic and pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, according to the South China Morning Post. Lai was arrested under national security law in August 2020 when authorities raided his newspaper’s headquarters.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Continuing a continued effort to infuse human rights into its foreign policy, the US Department of State Friday designated 12 officials of foreign governments for their gross violations of human rights or corruption.

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LLRX

APRIL 13, 2024

On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 20, 2021

There are reports of widely available false cards, including some being shipped from China. As cities like New York enforce vaccine mandates, many of us have raised concerns over the logistics in using bars and restaurants as the gatekeepers for vaccine enforcement. There is little ability for anyone to tell a fake from a genuine copy.

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MARCH 30, 2021

The debate, however, has thus far not considered whether foreign law illegality should expand to bar certain non -contractual claims – a question which the Singapore Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Jonathan Ang v Lyu Yan [2021] SGCA 12 raises. Lyu Yan wanted to transfer money from China to Singapore.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2022

As vice president, Joe Biden flew to China on Air Force Two with Hunter Biden , who arranged for his father to meet some of his business interests. Indeed, it is impossible to look into these allegations of influence peddling without repeatedly running into references to the President.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2024

Under Article 110 of the Chinese Criminal Law , a person convicted of espionage could be subject to life imprisonment. Before that, a UK parliamentary researcher and another man were charged on April 22 with spying for China in the UK under the Official Secrets Act. MI6 also repeatedly asked Wang to recruit his wife, Ms.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 22, 2023

The most obvious purpose is that Biden was working on a book that discussed some of the underlying subject matters like China and Ukraine. That suggests that they were transferred more than once and sent to different locations for a purpose. However, Biden insists that he never had knowledge or interaction with the documents.

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JURIST

AUGUST 7, 2024

Sara Sandford, Attorney and former Chair of the ILS, stated that “the American Bar Association stood up for the rule of law and protection of human rights” by adopting the resolution. Speaking to JURIST, Regina M.

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JURIST

MAY 21, 2021

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance denied a bid on Thursday for a jury trial by the first person charged under the country’s new security law, Tong Ying Kit. The court found that a trial in front of a jury is not a constitutional right and that decision from a panel of judges will not be different compared to a panel of juries.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2021

A court in Nanjing in eastern China’s Jiangsu province sentenced a popular internet blogger, Qiu Ziming, to eight months in jail Tuesday for his comments about Chinese soldiers who died in a border clash with Indian soldiers at Galwan Valley in June of last year.

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JURIST

MARCH 10, 2021

China’s human rights abuses against the Uyghur ethnic minority group have breached the 1948 Genocide Convention , according to a Tuesday report from the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy. Therefore, China bears State responsibility for an ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs, in breach of the Genocide Convention.

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JURIST

JUNE 9, 2023

China’s Supreme People’s Court, Supreme People’s Procuratorate and Ministry of Public Security released a draft proposal to curb cyber abuse for public consultation on Friday. percent of people in China use the Internet. The report highlights a survey that shows 28.89

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JURIST

JULY 8, 2022

In the case of the genocide of Uighurs by Chinese authorizes recognized as such by some nations – the overall response was rather weak, except for some statements and corporate actions of some businesses to suspend their relations with China, and China triumphed as the host of 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2022

Pursuant to Egypt’s criminal law, death sentences are referred to the Grand Mufti, Egypt’s top religious authority, before the court confirms the verdict. Amnesty International has reported that Egypt is the world’s third most frequent executioner, second only to China and Iran.

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MARCH 19, 2024

She compares her arrest with those of government critics in Russia, Iran, and China, writing that “arresting critics is corrosive to the very foundation of a free society.” But the defendants in the case counter that Gonzalez’s approach would “wreak havoc on law enforcement.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The Atlantic published an article by Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith and University of Arizona law professor Andrew Keane Woods calling for Chinese style censorship of the internet.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2023

His only problem is getting large sums out of China (especially right now).” He also mentioned that you should take a trip to China some time this month to just get away for a week or so…just decompress.” They include this assurance: “I talked to Bo previously about the 37K – he didn’t flinch.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 28, 2021

Indeed, leading academics had the integrity recently to declare that they believe that “China is right” about censorship. Unfortunately, since the 2015 massacre, many in the United States have move closer to Erdogan’s view of free speech and the free press in calling for greater censorship and speech regulation.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Moreover, Biden spent the election denying that his son did nothing wrong and made no money from China. The “big guy” appears to be Joe Biden.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 4, 2022

With those words , White House communications director Kate Bedingfield reaffirmed that President Biden maintains his son Hunter Biden did “nothing [that] was unethical” and never “made money” in China. At the same time, the president is “absolutely” standing by his denial that his son did anything wrong or made any money from China.

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JUNE 28, 2022

12, 2018 , detailing Hunter’s dealings with Ye Jianming, the head of CEFC China Energy Company. As vice president, Joe Biden flew to China on Air Force Two with Hunter Biden , who arranged for his father to meet some of his business interests. The Biden voicemail concerned a Times report on Dec.

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