China Executes Briton Akmal Shaikh Despite Appeals for Mercy
British citizen Akmal Shaikh was executed by Chinese authorities yesterday for smuggling heroin. As reported earlier on CDT, the case was regarded as controversial given Shaikh’s family’s claims that...
View ArticleJerome A. Cohen: China’s Hollow ‘Rule Of Law’
Written by Professor Jerome A. Cohen, co-director of the NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute and adjunct senior fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, from CNN: Two major criminal...
View ArticleEdward McMillan-Scott: We Need New Powers To Rein In China
Written by Edward McMillan-Scott, vice-president of the European Parliament, with responsibility for democracy and human rights, from The Independent: The new year must see an end to ruthless regimes...
View ArticleAll Politics Are Local
Newsweek explores why China was willing to ignore international condemnation in the recent execution of British man Akmail Shaikh and the arrest of dissident Liu Xiaobo: Pundits have missed a key...
View ArticleChina Cancels UK Human Rights Summit After Akmal Shaikh Execution
From Telegraph: The UK-China Human Rights Dialogue is jointly organised by the Foreign Office and the Chinese Foreign Affairs ministry and has been running since 1997. The meetings, which take place...
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