China says that 90% of criminal cases are being disposed of through its new guilty plea system; Hong Kong’s High Court rejects the government’s application for an injunction against the protest song Glory to Hong Kong; the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights makes its first official visit to Japan; South Korea’s Constitutional Court overturns a parliamentary effort to impeach the interior minister for crowd control failures that resulted in 159 deaths last year; Taiwan revises its Gender Equity Education Act to better protect sexual harassment victims in education settings.

China issues regulations for generative artificial intelligence before its leading tech companies roll out their products; Hong Kong expands prosecutors’ powers to challenge acquittals in national security cases; Japan’s Supreme Court says it is unlawful to restrict a transgender employee’s use of office bathrooms; South Korea’s Supreme Court finalizes prison terms for tech company executives who leaked technology to Chinese companies; Taiwan responds to #MeToo accusations by approving tougher penalties for persons who use their position or power to sexually harass others.

China’s Supreme Court releases 10 typical cases related to domestic violence; a Hong Kong court holds a hearing on the government’s request for an injunction to ban the protest song Glory to Hong Kong; Japan raises the age of sexual consent from 13 to 16 and bars “photo voyeurism”; South Korea’s Supreme Court rules partially for workers in two lawsuits in which Hyundai Motor seeks compensation from workers who went on strike; Taiwan’s Constitutional Court says criminal defamation requires at least gross negligence.

The CEDAW Committee expresses concern about harassment of women human rights defenders in China; Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance says Jimmy Lai can and will get a fair trial; the lower house of Japan’s legislature approves major revisions to the Penal Code for sexual offenses; the South Korean legislature fails to override a presidential veto of the controversial Nursing Act; Taiwan’s president nominates four candidates to fill upcoming vacancies on the Constitutional Court.

A well-known Beijing LGBT organization is closed after 15 years; the Hong Kong Court of First Instance says it lacks jurisdiction to review the government’s denial of a visa to publisher Jimmy Lai’s UK lawyer; Japan’s ruling party submits a weakened LGBTQ+ rights bill to the legislature; a South Korean court orders the country’s biggest adoption agency to compensate an adoptee for mishandling his case; Taiwan allows same-sex couples to adopt children not biologically related to them.

A rights group claims that China is increasing its use of exit bans; Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal hears arguments in a press freedom case; the Japanese government submits legislation to punish persons who surreptitiously take sexually exploitative photos; South Korea resumes a crackdown on illegal immigration; Taiwan restricts China-bound travel by persons who work with state-funded core technologies.

A Chinese court sentences to two prominent human rights lawyers to lengthy prison terms; Japan’s legislature advances a bill that would allow courts to order GPS monitoring of suspects released on bail; the South Korean Supreme Court rules that Google must disclose whether it shared personal information of South Korean nationals with third parties; Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice proposes to revise the Civil Code to ban corporal punishment of children by their parents.

A Chinese court sentences six defendants in a high-profile human trafficking case; a former democratic politician tells a Hong Kong court that legal scholar Benny Tai’s 2020 election plan could have led to a catastrophe; a Tokyo court orders Waseda University and its former professor to pay damages to a former student for sexual harassment; a South Korean court approves the seizure of four more Mitsubishi patent rights to compensation the victims of forced labor in World War II; lawyers in Taiwan seek the release of a man who has been held on death row for 35 years.