Word: legalism
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...lawyer. UMR’s Student Council declined to comment on the budget cut, directing comment requests to the University’s Communications Office. UMR Director of Communications Andrew Careaga said Friday that The Miner’s complaint has been referred to the university’s legal counsel. “Both the student newspaper and the Student Council are a very important part of life on campus,” Careaga said. “The university has never attempted to censor the content of The Missouri Miner,” he added. Neither University...
...colleague Hannah Beech wrote when Chen's sentence of four years and three months was announced last September, Chen is a "self-schooled legal activist [who] came to Shanghai to publicize the plight of women who had been forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations as part of the nation's family-planning campaign. China has tried for more than two decades to lower its population through its 'one-child' policy, but the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. By publicizing abuses committed by local bureaucrats, Chen believed he could persuade higher-level officials to step...
...lawyers say Chen's final formal appeal was turned down in December and since then they have had less and less opportunity to visit him, as there are no legal avenues left to pursue. Li told me that he last saw Chen on Jan. 15. He had lost weight, was plagued by serious stomach problems and was being denied privileges given to other prisoners such as being able to buy food items such as instant noodles. "It is very hard for him," Li said with a sigh. "Can you imagine what it's like to be in prison...
...Chen's only recourse now is China's Byzantine petitioning system, a holdover from imperial days that exists in parallel with the legal system. As Li notes, it is rare for a petition even to be accepted by the relevant office, much less be acted on. And in many cases, orders issued in Beijing or a provincial capital as a result of a successful petition are ignored by lower authorities. (Tiangao, huangdi yuan, the Chinese say: "Heaven is high and the Emperor is far away." Beijing has always had enormous trouble enforcing its will in the far-flung corners...
...Beijing to visit Chen. The bus was stopped in mid-journey and a group of seven or eight unidentified men, some of them wielding iron bars, climbed on board and attacked the lawyers. "I keep a positive attitude," Li said, but inevitably such experiences "shake my belief in the legal system of this country." Then Li showed me a picture someone had taken of him after the beating. His entire head and faced were covered in blood. I asked if I could have a copy, but he declined. "It would be too sad," for people to see the picture...