Human Rights in China.

Intro -- HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA -- HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA: TRENDS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS* -- ABSTRACT -- OVERVIEW -- A MIXED PICTURE -- Selected Highlights from the State Department's Human Rights Report for 2007 -- The Birth of Civil Society -- Non-Governmental Organizations -- Human Rights Legislation -- Other Policy Developments -- Re-Education through Labor -- In the Provinces: Renewed Talk of Reform -- Recent Hopes and Disappointments -- 17th Party Congress -- Pre-Olympics Crackdown -- The Sichuan Earthquake and Civil Society -- SELECTED HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE AREAS -- Persecution of Political Dissent -- State Control of Information -- Religious and Ethnic Issues -- Christians in China -- Tibetan Protests -- Uighur Muslims -- Falun Gong -- VARIABLES OF CHANGE -- Central vs. Local Governments -- Rights Awareness and Legal Activism -- Social Unrest -- Mainstream Protests -- New Agents of Democracy? -- New Communications Technologies -- U.S. EFFORTS TO ADVANCE HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA -- Openly Criticizing China -- Human Rights Dialogue -- Rule of Law and Civil Society Programs -- Public Diplomacy -- Internet Freedom -- Labor Rights -- Congressional-Executive Commission on China -- FURTHER READING -- APPENDIX -- PROFILES OF SELECTED IMPRISONED DISSIDENTS AND ACTIVISTS[120] -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 INTERNET DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMATION CONTROL IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA* -- ABSTRACT -- INTERNET DEVELOPMENT AND USE IN CHINA[3] -- Censorship and Content Control of the Internet -- METHODS OF PRC INTERNET CENSORSHIP AND CONTENT CONTROL -- Legal Regulations -- September 25, 2005 Regulations -- Technical Methods of Content Filtering -- Cyber-Police, Punitive Action, and Self-Censorship -- U.S. PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT IN PRC INTERNET CENSORSHIP -- Yahoo and Shi Tao Case.

U.S. GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO PROMOTE UNRESTRICTED INTERNET ACCESS IN CHINA -- Congressional Action -- International Broadcasting Bureau -- ISSUES FOR U.S. POLICY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 CHINA AND FALUN GONG* -- ABSTRACT -- OVERVIEW -- BASIC DESCRIPTIONS AND MAJOR EVENTS -- What is Falun Gong? -- Formation and Organization -- Master Li Hongzhi -- The 1999 FLG Demonstrations and PRC Government Crackdown -- FALUN GONG ACTIVITIES UNDERGROUND AND OVERSEAS AND CONTINUED GOVERNMENT REPRESSION -- Interruption of Television Broadcasts -- Alleged Concentration Camps and Organ Harvesting -- The Kilgour-Matas Report -- Falun Gong Activities Overseas -- Hong Kong -- The United States -- IMPLICATIONS FOR PRC POLITICS -- U.S. GOVERNMENT ACTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RULE OF LAW IN CHINA. HEARING BEFORE THE CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA, ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. CHUCK HAGEL, A U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF NEBRASKA, CHAIRMAN, CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA -- OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. JIM LEACH, A U.S. REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE STATE OF IOWA, CO-CHAIRMAN, CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA -- STATEMENT OF JEROME A. COHEN, PROFESSOR OF LAW, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, NEW YORK, NY -- STATEMENT OF JOHN KAMM, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE DUI HUA FOUNDATION, SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- STATEMENT OF HON. SAM BROWNBACK, A U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF KANSAS, MEMBER, CONGRESSIONAL- EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA -- STATEMENT OF MINXIN PEI, DIRECTOR, CHINA PROGRAM, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE, WASHINGTON, DC -- STATEMENT OF XIAO QIANG, DIRECTOR, CHINA INTERNET PROJECT, THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, BERKELEY, CA -- APPENDIX. PREPARED STATEMENTS.

Prepared Statement of Jerome A. Cohen, September 20, 2006 -- Prospects for Legislative Reform of the Criminal Process -- Supreme Court Efforts to Restrict Application of the Death Penalty -- Disgraceful Handling of Some Recent Criminal Cases -- The Communist Party's Participation in Criminal Investigation -- New Restraints upon Lawyers -- The Immediate Future -- What Should We Do? -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF JOHN KAMM, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- Recent Developments in Dui Hua's Dialogue on Human Rights with the Chinese Government -- Ministry of Justice Stops Accepting Prisoner Lists -- Dui Hua Responds -- A Window Closes, a Window Opens? -- Recommendations -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF MINXIN PEI, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF XIAO QIANG, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- The Rise of Chinese Blogosphere and Intensified Control Efforts on the Chinese Internet -- OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. CHUCK HAGEL, A U.S. SENATOR FROM NEBRASKA, CHAIRMAN, CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. JAMES A. LEACH, A U.S. REPRESENTATIVE FROM IOWA, CO-CHAIRMAN, CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. SAM BROWNBACK, A U.S. SENATOR FROM KANSAS, MEMBER, CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. STEVEN J. LAW, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF LABOR, MEMBER, CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF FRANKLIN L. LAVIN, UNDER SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, MEMBER, CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 -- INDEX -- Blank Page.

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