China's top security chief Guo Shengkun called for progress in improving procuratorial, judicial and public security work in the new era at a working conference on Jan 22.
BEIJING -- China will expand legal aid services in rural areas to give every village with at least one legal assistant by the end of 2018, said Justice Minister Zhang Jun on Jan 24.
BEIJING — A document issued on Jan 24 stressed that a campaign on organized crime should involve fighting corruption, including lower-level corrupt officials, and deal with “protective umbrellas” of gang crime.
ZHENGZHOU -- A court in central China's Henan Province overruled an appeal filed by the family of a smoker who died of a heart attack after an argument with a man who asked him to stop smoking in a lift on Jan 23.
Lawmakers in Hunan province are reviewing a law revision which would require kindergartens to provide parents with access to their monitoring video, so that they can see whether their children are being well cared for.
China opened its first national research institute for legal aid on Jan 19 in Beijing to improve and accelerate development of legislation in the area.
China will expand nationwide this year a pilot project assigning criminal defense lawyers to represent defendants in criminal cases who don't have lawyers to protect their human rights, a senior official said.
