Chinese lawyers and pro-democracy activists mark the tenth anniversary of a sweeping 2015 crackdown on lawyers that resulted in hundreds being detained and some imprisoned or disbarred; the Hong Kong government proposes to impose criminal charges to enforce the requirement to register all mobile phone SIM cards in the user’s real name; a proposal to allow Japanese married couples to keep separate surnames becomes an issue in the election for the upper house of parliament; former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol returns to jail after being accused of five new criminal charges related to his aborted martial law attempt; the career prosecutor who has been nominated to lead Taiwan’s Judicial Yuan and serve as a Constitutional Court judge submits to questioning by legislators.
July 6, 2025-July 12, 2025
Chinese lawyers and pro-democracy activists mark the tenth anniversary of a sweeping 2015 crackdown on lawyers that resulted in hundreds being detained and some imprisoned or disbarred; the Hong Kong government proposes to impose criminal charges to enforce the requirement to register all mobile phone SIM cards in the user’s real name; a proposal to allow Japanese married couples to keep separate surnames becomes an issue in the election for the upper house of parliament; former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol returns to jail after being accused of five new criminal charges related to his aborted martial law attempt; the career prosecutor who has been nominated to lead Taiwan’s Judicial Yuan and serve as a Constitutional Court judge submits to questioning by legislators.