Join the Law Students for Human Rights for a discussion with Rayhan Asat and Kenneth Roth about China’s reshaping of international law to achieve its authoritarian agenda via a case study of the Uyghur homeland.
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China announces policies intended to boost births; a Hong Kong court upholds a new rule blocking defendants in national security cases from calling overseas witness to testify virtually; a second Japanese high court rules that the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional; a South Korean court orders the state to compensate the family of a murder victim because police failed to identify and punish his killer; a Taiwan court extends the detentions of Taiwan People’s Party Chairman Ko Wen-je and other suspects in a high stakes bribery investigation.
Information Session on Study Abroad in Japan
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China issues new export controls for dual-use goods; a Hong Kong court hears the first legal challenge to the new Safeguarding National Security Ordinance; a Japanese police chief apologizes to an exonerated man who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate; a South Korean court hears arguments about the abortion of 36-week fetus; Taiwan’s Constitutional Court deems unconstitutional key portions of legislation that would have significantly increased the power of the legislature over the executive branch.
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China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate says it will stop using unreasonable performance evaluation indicators for prosecutors; Hong Kong’s stock market regulator announces streamlined procedures for vetting new listings in hopes of boosting the number of IPOs; US lawmakers urge Japan to strengthen restrictions on sales of chip-making equipment to China; a South Korean court orders the government to compensate an 82-year-old man for his wrongful conviction and imprisonment on spy charges more than five decades ago; Taiwan’s Constitutional Court prepares to issue a much-anticipated decision about controversial amendments passed by the legislature in May that give the legislature broad investigative powers and the authority to hold executive branch officials in contempt.
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China releases a draft Private Economy Promotion Law for public comment, after several difficult years for the country's private sector; Hong Kong's top court hears arguments over whether same-sex couples should enjoy the same inheritance rights as heterosexual married couples.; Japan enacts a law that offers an apology and compensation to victims of forced sterilization; a South Korean woman sues the government and others for facilitating the overseas adoption of her kidnapped daughter; China detains four Taiwanese employees of Foxconn.
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China's national legislature seeks public comments on six bills; another foreign judge announces his departure from Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeals; South Korean prosecutors decline to bring criminal charges against the president's wife for accepting an expensive gift handbag; Japan's legislature elects the new head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Shigeru Ishiba, as prime minister; following a court ruling that limits use of the death penalty, Taiwan's justice minister says death row inmates will remain in prison unless the top prosecutor's office files an extraordinary appeal on their behalf.
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China's Supreme People's Court releases an interpretation of tort law; Hong Kong sentences two journalists to prison for sedition; a Japanese court exonerates a man who spent 48 years on death row; South Korea's legislature approves a law that would punish knowingly possessing or viewing deepfake pornography; Taiwan's opposition parties express dissatisfaction with the executive's nominees for the Constitutional Court.
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A 10-year-old Japanese boy is fatally stabbed in China while walking to school on the anniversary of the outbreak of war between Japan and China in 1931; a Hong Kong court sentences one man to 14 months in prison and another to 10 months for displaying or writing a protest slogan; former Nissan Motor Corp. executive vice president Greg Kelly appeals his conviction for under-reporting the compensation of his boss, Carlos Ghosn; Taiwan's Constitutional Court upholds the death penalty punishment but restricts its use to the most serious crimes.
Japan Honors Professor Frank K. Upham
Japanese Ambassador Mikio Mori bestowed the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, upon Professor Frank K. Upham for significantly promoting the understanding of Japanese law in US academia and building networks among global legal communities. The award is one of the highest honors that the government of Japan confers upon foreign nationals.
USALI's Bruce Aronson quoted by Japan Times
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China's legislature approves an increase in the official retirement ages for men and women for the first time in 70 years; the Beijing and Hong Kong governments criticize a move by the US House of Representatives that could result in closing Hong Kong's trade offices in the United States; a Japanese court grants Japanese nationality to a child born in Japan to Afghan refugees; South Korea's Supreme Court upholds a life sentence for a man who stabbed strangers at a Seoul subway station; lawyers for former Taiwan presidential candidate Ko Wen-je say he will not appeal his detention without bail in a corruption investigation.
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Chinese police detain well-known artist Gao Zhen because of his irreverent depictions of the late Chairman Mao Zedong; Hong Kong police move to quash memorials at an MTR station on the fifth anniversary of police attacks on protesters there in 2019; Japanese prosecutors indict a former lawmaker for using public funds to pay a fictitious employee; the social media company Telegram apologizes to South Korean authorities for allowing deepfake pornographic material to be shared on its messaging app; a Taiwan court orders former presidential candidate Ko Wen-je to be detained incommunicado on suspicion of corruption.
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The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights urges China to investigate and correct alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang; a Hong Kong court convicts two former Stand News editors and its parent company of sedition for publishing 11 articles critical of the government during the 2019 protests; Japanese prosecutors indict a former lawmaker on charges of misusing political funds; South Korea's Constitutional Court orders the government and legislature to rewrite the country's climate change law to include more concrete measures; anti-corruption investigators in Taiwan raid the home and office of former presidential candidate Ko Wen-je, leader of the Taiwan People's Party, in connection with a mall development project while he was Taipei mayor.
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Chinese prosecutors formally charge a Japanese businessman with espionage in a case that has chilled the Japanese business community; a Hong Kong court sentences a man to eight weeks in prison for covering his ears and remaining seated while the national anthem was played at a sports event; Japan's Liberal Democratic Party schedules its party leadership election for September 27 - an event that will determine who is Japan's next prime minister; a South Korean court refuses to hand down the death penalty to the man convicted of killing two persons and injuring twelve in a random attack at a department store; a Taiwan court convicts eight active-duty military officers of spying for China and sentences them to up to 13 years in prison.
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China's Ministry of Civil Affairs proposes to make marriage registration more convenient; Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal upholds the convictions of seven pro-democracy activists for participating in a peaceful march in 2019; Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announces he will step down as head of his party and therefore as prime minister; South Korea's government says it will help medical schools cope with an ordered surge in new admissions; Taiwanese law enforcement agencies conduct a series of raids in response to financial crimes.
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An unmarried Chinese woman loses her five-year legal battle to be allowed to freeze her eggs; a Hong Kong citizen challenges the Environmental Protection Agency’s green light to build a 600-hectare tech hub adjoining Shenzhen; a Japanese court convicts a local police officer of leaking confidential information from more than 100 cases to a journalist; South Korean authorities indict the founder of the tech giant Kakao on charges of stock price manipulation; Taiwan’s Constitutional Court hears oral arguments in a challenge to a set of legislative amendments that significantly expand the power of the Legislative Yuan.
USALI Research Scholar Chi Yin Explains Trump's Criminal Conviction for Chinese Readers
U.S.-Asia Law Institute Research Scholar Chi Yin published an article, “People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump: The Trial and Conviction of a Former U.S. President,” on Wolters Kluwer’s Chinese language website. She and her co-author, Arthur Chiu of Cyan Law Firm, analyze the former president’s conviction in the hush-money case to clarify common misunderstandings in China about the US criminal justice system and its relationship to the political system. Read more.
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China proposes creating a national Internet ID system; a Hong Kong court allows three Tiananmen vigil organizers to appeal their convictions for refusing to provide information to the national security police; Japan considers collecting all civil and administrative court decisions in a single electronic database; Korean victims of Japan’s wartime slavery are stymied in their efforts to collect court-awarded compensation from the Japanese government; Taiwan agrees to compensate the families of two Chinese fishermen who were killed while being chased at sea by Taiwan’s coast guard.
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China issues detailed rules for implementing the expanded Law on Guarding State Secrets; a lawyer for former Apple Daily publisher Jimmy Lai says he will testify in his own defense at his national security trial, which has been adjourned until November; local police in Japan conduct a massive raid and arrest 90 people on suspicion of running an investment scam; US federal prosecutors indict a North Korean military intelligence operative on charges of conspiring to hack US health care providers and military bases, among others; Taiwan’s Constitutional Court sets out procedures for upcoming hearings on controversial laws that empower the opposition-controlled legislature to question the president and require government officials and citizens to testify at investigative hearings.