11.06
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Zhangjiakou, Hebei
On the morning of November 6, lawyer Fan Chen was attending a court hearing at the Zhangjiakou Intermediate People's Court in Hebei Province when the presiding judge, surnamed Zhong, demanded he put away his water cup. Fan Chen questioned the legal basis for this demand and refused to hand over the cup. The presiding judge then called in bailiffs and announced an adjournment, with the date for the resumed hearing to be notified later.
11.04
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Dengzhou City, Henan
Mr. Liu stated that he did not receive valid notices for the court hearing or the judgment. His application for a retrial was rejected by the Dengzhou City Court on the grounds that service via SMS and phone call was legal. On November 4, the original trial judge responded that the retrial application had been answered and that it was inconvenient to accept an interview.
11.02
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Beijing
On November 2, a draft amendment to the Criminal Procedure Law of the PRC was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for its first review. It proposes to explicitly write for the first time that 'no person shall be found guilty without a judgment by a people's court in accordance with the law, and presumption of guilt is prohibited,' and intends to restrict the application of residential surveillance in designated locations. Scholars warn that adding these six characters requires a systematic upgrade of provisions regarding evidence and the right to defense.
10.31
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
On October 31, the topic of "sexual consent determination" in the case of Bu, a female master's degree holder who was "taken in," reached the Weibo trending list, peaking at No. 13. Bu suffers from schizophrenia and lacks the capacity for sexual self-defense. She cohabited with Zhang Moujun for over a decade without a marriage certificate. Zhang Moujun was not prosecuted, while two villagers were publicly prosecuted.
10.31
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
Prosecutors argued that Zhang Moujun's long-term stable cohabitation with and care for Bu Mou, a missing female master's student suffering from schizophrenia and lacking the capacity for sexual self-defense, constituted "forming a family and living together," which is "fundamentally different" from the crime of rape, and thus decided not to prosecute. His collection of a 40,000 yuan "adoption fee" for giving away a child was also deemed a private adoption and not a crime.
10.29
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
The human rights organization Safeguard Defenders has released a new edition of the book 'The People's Republic of the Disappeared.' It includes first-hand accounts of secret detention under the 'Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location' (RSDL) system from Chinese rights lawyers, journalists, NGO workers, as well as Michael Kovrig, Cheng Lei, and Lee Ming-che, and offers a free PDF download.
10.25
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Wuhai
The Haibowan Branch and Wuda Branch of the Wuhai Public Security Bureau in Inner Mongolia carried out “distant-water fishing” against a Beijing entrepreneur — recovering assets before filing a case — involving 9.9 million yuan. The person involved has奔波 six years and won lawsuits repeatedly, yet the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau has kept the money and still has not returned it.
10.23
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Shenyang
The trial of Shenyang petitioner Fu Youling, charged with the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, has opened; the prosecution recommended a fixed-term prison sentence of two years.
10.21
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Huizhou
According to a New Yellow River report on October 21, when iQIYI sued Xunlei, it listed a Huizhou car rental company as a defendant and sought 50,000 yuan in compensation, claiming that the company's vehicles came "pre-installed" with the software. The owner of the rental company said the software was installed by the renter after picking up the car. A lawyer interviewed believes the move was intended to use the rental company's location to argue for trying the dispute with Shenzhen-based Xunlei in Huizhou.
10.19
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
The Ministry of Justice, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, the National Health Commission, and the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration jointly issued standards defining the scope of serious illnesses and criteria for identifying inability to care for oneself for temporary execution of sentences outside prison.
10.19
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Lanzhou
Zhou Lubao, who had actively participated in public discussions and helped workers demand unpaid wages, was sentenced by a Lanzhou court to 14 years in prison for extortion. Netizens posted lamenting that the one who fought for others' wages was instead heavily punished.
10.14
·Developing
·Importance III
·Sources 1
On October 14, 2026, according to posts on social media, a 16-year-old student was raped and murdered and her body thrown downstairs; when the body was found, it was naked and had two knives stuck in her back. Reports indicate the killer is suspected to be the child of a Chinese Communist Party official, and afterwards local authorities disguised the case as a suicide by jumping from a building, while tightly controlling the victim's family, forbidding any pursuit of accountability or speaking out. The incident has sparked intense fear and condemnation among netizens over public security and judicial injustice.
10.14
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
In the Zhejiang Financial Center incident, the grandmother of Zhu Yidan, a detained rights defender and doctoral student, spoke out in a group chat, issuing 'Ten Questions of Blood and Tears.' She stated that her granddaughter has been detained for 9 months and denied bail, accused of 'conspiracy' merely for forwarding rights-defense information, and questioned where the social danger lies.
10.14
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Handan
According to reports by The Paper and Red Star News in October 2026, the family said that as of October 14 they had still not received the more than 62,000 yuan in compensation ordered by the court.
10.09
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·陕西省汉中市勉县
A man surnamed Zhou in Mian County, Shaanxi, fought a lawsuit against the local government for 8 years up to the Supreme Court over the forced demolition of his house. The original ruling of 700 yuan per square meter was overturned by the court, and compensation was set at 100 yuan per square meter, based on the standard for pigsties.