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...Among those rooting for Chen was Gao Zhisheng, a feisty lawyer who has represented underground Christians and members of the banned Falun Gong sect. Gao wore a "Free Chen Guangcheng" T shirt and spoke openly of his contempt for what he called "the gangster Communist Party" (even though he's a member). This fall, he was arrested on charges of inciting subversion. Arrests like these have sparked debate among lawyers about tactics. Teng Biao, a lecturer at the China University of Political Science and Law, says Gao's willingness to push the envelope has widened the space "for other more...
...Chen Bulei believes there is room for China's leaders to be convinced that it serves their own long-term interests to safeguard the legal rights of people like the miner Zhao. Chen, a member of the Communist Party with a Ph.D. from a top law school, once worked as a policeman and later as a judge in a Beijing court. Both experiences, he says, strengthened his conviction that China needs more people who can "demonstrate to the leadership that the rule of law needs to be strengthened and that citizens' rights should expand." In the legal-theory classes that...
Connie E. Chen ’08 is an economics concentrator in Kirkland House. Matthew F. Basilico ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Mather House. Jonathan E. Soverow, a MPH candidate at the School of Public Health, is a member of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. The Philadelphia Consensus Statement is available online at www.essentialmedicine.org/cs.
...celebrating a narrow win in Saturday's mayoral election in the southern port city of Kaohsiung this week. But the greatest exultation over the result may be in the capital, Taipei. The Kaohsiung race had been viewed as a key indicator of whether the corruption scandals involving President Chen Shui-bian and his family had seriously damaged the strength of his party. The DPP's narrow victory indicates that the President, whom many opponents were expecting to step down just a month ago, still has some clout left. "I think that Chen passed a very critical political test," says Emile...
...Hsieh lost the mayoral race to Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Hau Lung-bin by about 13%. But Taipei, a KMT stronghold, was a race the DPP was expected to lose. In Kaohsiung, on the other hand, the DPP has held the mayoral seat for the past eight years. DPP candidate Chen Chu, an ex-labor minister and former political prisoner, won by 1,114 votes, just .14% of the total 767,868 ballots cast. She had trailed in opinion polls in the weeks before the election and acknowledged that the corruption allegations involving the President were an obstacle. KMT candidate Huang...