e-mail this to a friend printable version » 08/30/2012 13:59CHINABeijing,Supreme Court seeks to silence defense lawyersSupreme court judges rule on new Criminal Code, which enters into force in 2013, triggering protests from legal associations: according to the Court, the ordinary courts “may suspend lawyers for up to one year” in cases of unspecified “violations “. The new struggle for democracy in China goes through the courts, and the Party intends to curb it.Beijing (AsiaNews) – The Supreme People’s Court of China has proposed that the ordinary courts can “ban the lawyers’ at will for up to a year for” unspecified violations
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