Word: communist
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...four tiers of courts from the county level to the Supreme People's Court, a prosecution service (the People's Procuratorates), an appeals process, trials, judges and lawyers. But the institutions that make up China's legal system are all ultimately under the control of the Communist Party. The Party isn't solely to blame for China's woes: rogue local officials, badly paid, poorly trained judges and the courts' own institutional weakness all play a role. But the Party's near absolute power over the judiciary ensures a lack of accountability that is the root cause of many other...
...development is bringing pressure for change. The country's emerging urban élite now see protecting their individual rights as a No. 1 priority. "The rising middle class likes predictability and security, and that's what the law does," says Nicholas Bequelin of Human Rights Watch, adding that the Communist Party recognizes that its future hangs on being able to accommodate such demands. "The Party is highly adaptable so long as nothing threatens their basic control...
...South train station. Yang says she has no choice. "Of course we still come. Our children are innocent. How could we not come?" In December 2005, fed up with the lack of response, four relatives bypassed the petition office and marched straight to the red gates of Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party headquarters. Fu Yuru, mother of He Guoqiang, who is serving a suspended death sentence for the crime, held aloft a banner calling for her son's freedom. The gesture cost the then 56-year-old 14 days in detention before she, like the others, was shipped back to Zhuangtouying...
...Yang Wanying, whose son Yang Shiliang is also serving a suspended death sentence, the injustice is a crisis of faith. A lifelong Communist Party member who still dresses in a baggy Mao suit and cap, he passionately denies his son is guilty. On the night of the murder, his son was "sitting right there," Yang says, pointing to a window in the family home. "We played mah-jongg from seven o'clock until two in the morning." He pauses for a moment, overcome by emotion, then continues. "Every time I visit him in the jail he asks me the same...
...Bush, 83, gave the keynote address, and praised Graham for sparking a moral awakening in the U.S. and later, in communist countries. Graham, along with Pope John Paul, "helped tip the balance of history in freedom's favor." Bush also thanked Graham for ministering to four generations of his own family, starting with his mother and continuing through to his children and grandchildren. "Billy guided our kids, including our daughter Doro and the President, through their own spiritual journeys." Graham, said Bush, "is a spiritual gift to all of us," briefly choking up as he spoke...