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Chinese Communist Party-owned media outlet Renminwang reported Monday that the Chinese Ministry of Public Security began another week of promoting its operation to target online rumors and encourage rational commenting on the internet. As part of the campaign, the Ministry of Public Security released examples of online rumors to educate the public on how to [...]

The Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee joined ten government departments on Saturday to issue a notice titled “Notice of Special Cleaning and Correction of Forum Activities” to action an overhaul the internet and eliminate misinformation and tamps down counterfeit forums. The government stated there are too many organizations in the [...]

A Hong Kong court found Cheng Wing-chun guilty of insulting China’s National Anthem under the National Anthem Ordinance on Wednesday. Cheng is the first person to be convicted under this ordinance. This was after he allegedly insulted the national anthem and desecrated the regional flag. Cheng was convicted shortly after he used a 2019 anti-government [...]

Hong Kong authorities on Monday brought charges under its 2020 National Security Law against eight activists, accusing them of advocating separation from China. Former Hong Kong legislators Dennis Kwok and Ted Hui are among those sought by authorities. Police released brief summaries of the allegations against each activist. Hui is under investigation due to his activity on social media [...]

This is a dispatch from your former JURIST China correspondent, twenty-five years later. The early dispatches I sent to Hibbitts from Wuhan University roughly at the turn of the millennium when the Web was young are now so antiquated that finding one required an archival deep dive. Indeed, it was a very different time – [...]

Kazakhstan, the world’s third largest Bitcoin mining hub, recently enacted its robust new Law on Digital Assets. In this explainer, we consider how the law, along with a slew of amendments to related laws, has the potential to catapult Kazakhstan to the forefront of digital asset regulation, as well as having profound implications for the [...]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a main competitive advantage for the 21st century is rapidly gaining momentum on the world stage. Its accelerating capabilities and potential are so significant that it will transform nearly all aspects of our societies, including the economy, education, healthcare, the law, national security, and beyond. It is becoming the driver for [...]

Billionaire founder and former CEO of JD.com Richard Liu Sunday settled a civil lawsuit against him in which he was accused of raping a University of Minnesota student in 2018. The jury trial was to begin on Monday at 8:00AM. In a joint statement, the parties said the case has “consumed substantial public attention and [...]

UK privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch Thursday reported that police are disproportionately using existing stop and search powers to target protesters. This comes as the Government is planning even more protest crackdowns through the Public Order Bill, the human rights group said on Twitter.  According to the UK Government, the bill aims to “give police the [...]

A Taiwanese activist returned home Friday after serving a five-year jail sentence in China for “subversion of state power.” Lee Ming-che disappeared in March 2017. A week after his disappearance, he was found in the custody of the Chinese government. He had been arrested and charged for subversion of state power. During trial, Lee admitted [...]