Chinese lawyers push for slavery crime change: paper
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China's lawyers association has urged making slavery a specific crime, an official newspaper reported on Tuesday in the wake of a trial of brick-kiln operators accused of brutally exploiting trapped workers.
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A Chinese author who was briefly  detained by police overnight along with two other intellectuals  said Tuesday the authorities appeared to be trying to build a  case against him as part of a crackdown on government critics.
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BEIJING -- China's legislature began examining a much-debated law yesterday designed to help protect private property in an increasingly well off society.
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Compensation claims over the MRSA superbug may rise as lawyers use workplace laws to pursue hospitals.
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Chinese police have captured a man accused of holding workers in virtual slavery, state media reported on Sunday amid a national scandal over rural teenagers and men forced to work in brutal, furnace-like brick kilns.
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Â· Lawyer says thousands of prison documents 'lost'Â· Legal notices demand release of key information
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&quot;Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves!&quot; go  the stirring words that open China&#39;s national anthem.
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Analysis Lawyer calls for urgent domain dispute reform
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Proposed legislation aims to forcing penalties on China over its policy of suppressing the value of its currency to promote exports.
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BEIJING, Dec. 1 -- The controversial four-year, three-month prison sentence given to a blind legal activist for disrupting traffic and damaging property was upheld by a Chinese court Friday morning and immediately condemned by the activist's attorneys.
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Human rights abuses are growing in Asia as most countries in the region face a breakdown of the rule of law, a Hong Kong-based rights group said on Friday.
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Researchers and defense lawyers call for reform of a tool they say is rigged against the innocent.
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US officials visiting Beijing this weekend will press China to limit textile exports and crack down harder on piracy, reflecting pressure for trade concessions ahead of US elections in November, economists and trade lawyers said.
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China announced Friday it intends to enact a law against secession from the country, a move that analysts said could legally bind the Communist Party leadership to follow
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China is expected to pass its first  anti-drug law this week to combat drug-related crimes and  reduce the number of abusers, state media said on Sunday.
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Members of U.S. Congress have urged  Chinese President Hu Jintao to parole a U.S.-based scholar  jailed for entering China illegally and accused of spying.
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China is to introduce jury trials next year as part of reforms to its legal system, state media reports.