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Articles
21- Why Bank Withdrawals Get Blocked: Anti-Fraud Controls, Account Tiers, and the Challenge of AppealA failed withdrawal may reflect an account tier, bank risk control, police freeze, or joint discipline. Each has a different legal basis and appeal route.
- Hong Kong National-Security Cases: How A Free City Was Institutionally Taken OverA case study of how national-security logic reshaped Hong Kong's media, assembly, elections, associations, and courts.
- Supervisory Detention Procedure: Approval Authority, Statutory Conditions, and Case FlowHow supervision cases flow from lead intake through investigation, detention, and prosecution referral under statutory authority limits.
- CCDI and National Commission of Supervision: From Party Discipline to State SupervisionMandates, investigative sequence, transfer to prosecutors, and external oversight gaps in the merged discipline-supervision system.
- Courts, Procuratorates, and Adjudication CommitteesCourts and procuratorates have professional procedures, but political-legal coordination, Party leadership, adjudication committees, and performance systems shape sensitive cases.
- The CPPCC and Consultative IncorporationThe CPPCC incorporates parties, sectors, ethnic and religious representatives, and elites into consultation without becoming an independent center of power.
- Detention Centers and Prisons: How Custody Extends PunishmentPolice detention, justice-administration prisons, health care, labor, visits, and resident procuratorial oversight.
- Counsel Access and Assigned Defense in National-Security CasesMeeting permission, lawyer choice, file access, secrecy, and pressure around guilty pleas.
- Liuzhi Detention: Closed Custody in Supervision InvestigationsAuthority and oversight across liuzhi, protective custody, ordered availability, interrogation, and judicial transfer.
- Custodial Health Care, Medical Release, and Delayed TreatmentHealth assessment, referrals, records, medical release, and death investigation.
- The National Supervisory Commission and the Discipline SystemThe merged discipline and supervision structure connects internal Party investigation with state supervisory power over public personnel.
- The National People's Congress: How Party Policy Enters State LawSeparating NPC constitutional authority, Party direction, drafting, voting, and implementation.
- Fox Hunt-Style Coerced Return: Anti-Corruption Language As Cross-Border PressureWhy anti-corruption rhetoric cannot erase due process when return campaigns rely on family pressure and coercion.
- The Political-Legal Committee: Why Police, Courts, And Procuratorates Are Not IndependentHow the political-legal system connects police, courts, procuratorates, and stability maintenance under Party leadership.
- The Political-Legal Committee And The Stability Command ChainHow political-legal committees connect police, courts, procuratorates, judicial administration, and grassroots actors into a stability chain.
- Timeline of Human-Rights Repression and Social ControlA timeline of labor camps, household and work-unit control, national-security law, ethnic and religious governance, RSDL, and digital surveillance.
- RSDL: How a Legal Procedure Creates a Black-Box SpaceA sourced reconstruction of RSDL conditions, place, notice, counsel, and procuratorial oversight.
- Secret Trials: State Secrets, Public Access, and Defense LimitsClosed trial, secret evidence, judgments, family attendance, and verifiability.
- The State Council Under Party LeadershipThe State Council manages national administration while major direction, personnel, and cross-agency coordination remain under centralized Party leadership.
- Timeline of Party-State Institutions and LawA timeline of constitutional change, administration, the political-legal system, supervision, and institutional reform.
- Torture, Illegal Evidence, and Medical Deprivation in Case HandlingCoerced confession, sleep deprivation, restraints, delayed care, and exclusion of illegal evidence.
Cases
8- The Bo Xilai Case: Corruption Judgment and Elite ReorderingSeparating the judgment, discipline process, Chongqing network, and political consequences.
- The Cao Shunli Case: Custodial Health Care, International Advocacy, and Death InvestigationAn evidence-graded reconstruction of institutions, procedure, disputes, and consequences in The Cao Shunli Case: Custodial Health Care, International Advocacy, and Death Investigation.
- The 709 Crackdown: How Legal Advocacy Became a Security RiskAn evidence-graded reconstruction of institutions, procedure, disputes, and consequences in The 709 Crackdown: How Legal Advocacy Became a Security Risk.
- Hong Kong National-Security Cases: How A Free City Was Institutionally Taken OverA case study of how national-security logic reshaped Hong Kong's media, assembly, elections, associations, and courts.
- The Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi Case: From Private Gathering to Subversion ConvictionsAn evidence-graded reconstruction of institutions, procedure, disputes, and consequences in The Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi Case: From Private Gathering to Subversion Convictions.
- The Chang Weiping Case: RSDL, Torture Allegations, and Pressure on LawyersAn evidence-graded reconstruction of institutions, procedure, disputes, and consequences in The Chang Weiping Case: RSDL, Torture Allegations, and Pressure on Lawyers.
- Fox Hunt-Style Coerced Return: Anti-Corruption Language As Cross-Border PressureWhy anti-corruption rhetoric cannot erase due process when return campaigns rely on family pressure and coercion.
- Petitioner Black Jails: Temporary Sites, Security Agents, and Forced ReturnAn evidence-graded reconstruction of institutions, procedure, disputes, and consequences in Petitioner Black Jails: Temporary Sites, Security Agents, and Forced Return.