Administrative Penalty · Full chronicle and history

On November 3, during an online patrol, the Rongchang Public Security Bureau in Chongqing discovered individuals insulting each other. Upon visiting their homes, they confirmed that both parties were minors and provided them with criticism and education.

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.

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.

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.

On September 21, a tenant in Shenzhen failed to register a visiting friend, resulting in the landlord being taken to a police station, detained for 12 hours, and facing a fine of 1,000 yuan. The landlord demanded the tenant share the fine.

On September 19, the Beijing Municipal Market Regulation Bureau announced that it has launched investigations into four online hotel and travel platforms—Fliggy, Tongcheng, Tujia, and Meituan—for suspected illegal activities. On the same day, the China Hotel Association pointed out that these platforms are involved in issues such as high commissions, forced bundling, and data opacity, and called on them to make their search ranking and commission rate rules public.

On September 17, it was circulated online that the Justice Bureau of Puan County, Guizhou Province, issued a notice requiring local lawyers, when handling cases related to cracking down on organized crime, to report to the county justice bureau for study and obtain approval before they can present defense arguments that involve changing the characterization of a crime, and demanding that all law firms strictly enforce this.

On September 3, 2026, a large number of food delivery riders in Guangzhou had their order-taking accounts banned by platforms; traffic authorities and platforms jointly demanded that riders must pay off all accumulated fines for violations such as running through bridges and tunnels caught on camera before their accounts can be unblocked.

In August 2026, prominent criminal defense lawyer Chen Youxi publicly pointed out that in multiple cases involving fallen officials, the case-handling authorities appointed legal aid lawyers to crowd out the lawyers retained by family members, effectively depriving the parties of their right to defense.

China's State Administration for Market Regulation has found that Ctrip abused its dominant position in the hotel booking market, confiscating its illegal gains and imposing a fine totaling approximately 5.179 billion yuan.

On July 8, 2026, the public interest organization Asia Lawyers Network released a report disclosing that the crackdown on lawyers in China has extended to the civil and commercial sectors, with lawyers frequently facing criminal prosecution by authorities using criminal charges to replace civil litigation when handling civil and commercial disputes.

China's market regulator imposed an administrative penalty on Ctrip for monopolistic conduct, ordering it to refund order deposit funds, confiscating its illegal gains and imposing a hefty fine, with total fines and confiscations exceeding 5 billion yuan.

After the case was accepted, it remained unhandled for a long time; Lin attempted suicide by slashing his or her wrist shortly afterward, and his or her lawyer says Lin was subsequently diagnosed with severe depression by a hospital.

In late June 2026, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress released the draft amendment to the Lawyers Law, with new clauses explicitly requiring practicing lawyers to support the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the socialist rule of law, and mandating that law firms establish grassroots Party organizations in accordance with the Party Constitution.

A man in Xuchang, Henan went to a police station to obtain a certificate of no criminal record, but the system showed that he had been sentenced to re-education through labor by a court in 2010, while he had in fact been working in Suzhou, Jiangsu at the time and had never been subjected to re-education through labor.

The local government in Nenjiang, Heilongjiang conducted random inspections on merchants. Facing pressure for rectification and the risk of hefty fines, merchants closed their shops and went on strike en masse. The market supervision bureau subsequently issued a statement claiming the remarks were untrue.

On June 10, 2026, Chinese independent feminist and human rights activist Li Qiaochu sent an inquiry letter, legally filing an administrative reconsideration against the Shandong Provincial Prison Administration for its inaction on the marriage application of Xu Zhiyong, who is incarcerated.

From May 10 to 15, 2026, the Shandong Provincial Drug Administration inspected Line 103 of the lyophilized powder injection workshop at Shandong Huatai Pharmaceutical, concluded that there was 1 serious defect and that the results were non-compliant, and decided to suspend production of amiodarone hydrochloride injection.

China's Ministry of Justice announced the results of a crackdown on local law enforcement violations, saying it identified and corrected more than 66,000 problems and recovered economic losses of 30.7 billion yuan for businesses.

The Ministry of Justice reported that a county fire brigade in Henan assigned administrative fine quotas to 23 townships and subdistricts, requiring no fewer than 2 fines per month totaling at least 2,000 yuan.

On October 3, 2018, Xinhua News Agency reported that national tax authorities had confirmed that Fan Bingbing evaded taxes, recovering a total of 883 million yuan in taxes and fines, with criminal liability waived once the payment was made.

From July 9, 2015, Chinese police (Public Security) carried out large-scale arrests, summons and detentions of over a hundred rights lawyers, rights defenders and their relatives across 23 provinces, an event known as the 709 crackdown.

In May 2011, the Xia Junfeng case entered the Supreme People's Court's death penalty review; afterward, academics and netizens launched a "stay the execution" solidarity campaign, though the exact launch date and the scale of hundreds of thousands of participants could not be verified.

On June 16, 2009, the court of Badong County, Hubei, found Deng Yujiao guilty of intentional injury in the first-instance ruling, but, taking into account such circumstances as excessive self-defense and voluntary surrender, exempted her from criminal penalty.

The night after the Yang Jia case occurred, his mother Wang Jingmei was first taken to the Datun Police Station in Chaoyang District, and was then sent by Shanghai and Beijing police to the Ankang Psychiatric Hospital of the Beijing Public Security Bureau in Shunyi District and forcibly detained. Her family only learned of her whereabouts four months later, and legal professionals pointed out that there was no regulatory basis whatsoever for sending her to a psychiatric hospital.