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Chinese lawyers accuse court officials of interfering in trial, slam ‘blatant sabotage’ of legal system

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Chinese lawyers accuse court officials of interfering in trial, slam ‘blatant sabotage’ of legal system

“Afterwards, we accidentally found the criminal court judge of the Haixi intermediate court and the director of the Tianjun county court were remotely giving instructions in a WeChat group,” the letter said, referring to a messaging and social media platform. According to liberal-leaning newspaper Southern Weekly, one of the lawyers involved in the trial, Liu … Read more

Back to ‘black box’? As China tightens access to court records, legal experts fear for future of judicial transparency

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Back to ‘black box’? As China tightens access to court records, legal experts fear for future of judicial transparency

The debate generated so much heat that Xu’s sentence was reduced to seven years with a fine of 300,000 yuan on appeal, and authorities eventually punished officials who were previously untouched in the scandal. The case was one of several in the past decade in which Chinese members of the public used the transparency in … Read more