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Nationwide State Secrets Education Campaign Launched as New Law Goes into Effect
China’s revised Law on Guarding State Secrets (State Secrets Law) goes into effect today. Passed on April 29, 2010, the same day that a major policy report on the Internet 1 was presented to the National People’s Congress, the revised State Secrets Law is a legal upgrade designed to place broader...
October 1, 2010
Press Work
China Sharpens Legal Weapons for Information Control
In a revision of the central pillar of China’s state secrets system – the Law on Guarding State Secrets 1 (State Secrets Law) – the Chinese government has tightened its control of the flow of information in the digital age.
April 29, 2010
HRIC Bulletin
Law of the People’s Republic of China on Guarding State Secrets (Revised Draft) (2009) Full Text and Explanation
[English Translation by Human Rights in China, July 2009. Translation of Articles 1-51 based on the English translation of the 1989 Law of the People’s Republic of China on Guarding State Secrets by the Supreme Court of the People’s Republic of China.] The ninth session of the Standing Committee of...
July 24, 2009
Press Work
Qu Wei: the forgotten scholar
Li Shaomin, Gao Zhan & Qin Guangguang have been released due to pressure from the United States, but Qu Wei, convicted in the same spying case, is serving a 13-year prison term. Below is some information about him. Qu Wei was born in 1954 into an official family. At the age of 17, he joined the...
July 15, 2001
China Rights Forum

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