JURIST

JUNE 17, 2024

Chinese activists Sophia Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing were sentenced on Friday by the Guangzhou Intermediate Court to five years and three years and six months in prison, respectively, for “subversion against the state,” as shared by supporters of the activists on social media.

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JURIST

APRIL 2, 2023

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Saturday called on Thailand’s government to ensure Christian Chinese asylum seekers are not returned to China amidst persecution and threats of torture and serious harm.

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JURIST

JULY 7, 2023

Hong Kong’s press freedom score dropped four times in four consecutive years, said the Hong Kong Journalist’s Association Friday when releasing its Press Freedom Index for 2023. The index was created in 2013 and is calculated from ratings given by Hong Kong journalists and the general public. but its 2022 score was 25.7.

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JURIST

MAY 13, 2024

Students from China and Hong Kong studying abroad fear engaging with ‘sensitive’ or political issues while overseas, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Monday.

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JURIST

JANUARY 24, 2024

The UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group examined the human rights record of China, one of the 14 states reviewed during this year’s session, for the fourth time on Tuesday in a meeting at Geneva.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 22, 2021

However, as the arrangements between Mainland China and Hongkong SAR demonstrate, they may provide a model for a private international law regime for interregional relations. Therefore, when China joins a Hague Convention, the rules of that Convention do not thereby apply to the relations between Mainland China and the other three regions.

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JURIST

APRIL 13, 2024

The former chairman of China Everbright Group, Tang Shuangning, who used to serve as a senior official at the People’s Bank of China and the China Banking Regulatory Commission, is under indictment Friday on bribery and embezzlement charges. Tang was originally arrested in January.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Wednesday announced its approval of amendments to the Legal Practitioner’s Ordinance (LPO). ” The committee stated its decision was in accordance with the National Security Law (NSL) article 14.

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Customs & International Trade Law

MARCH 1, 2024

Hede (HONGKONG) International Shipping Limited was classified by the FMC as a controlled carrier of the Government of the People’s Republic of China and added to the agency’s Controlled Carrier List.

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