User:RienARetrancher/Nicholas Bequelin

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Articles by NB

 * Does the Law Matter in China?
 * Wake Up and Smell the Jasmine

Quotes about nb
http://www.chinafile.com/contributor/Nicholas%20Bequelin Nicholas Bequelin is Senior Researcher in the Asia division of Human Rights Watch, based in Hong Kong, and a former Visiting Scholar at the China Law Center, Yale University. He obtained his Ph.D. in History from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, in 2001, and is a graduate in Chinese from the School of Oriental Languages and Civilizations. He is a regular interviewee of major international media on legal, political, and human rights developments in China. Bequelin’s publications have appeared in The China Journal, The China Quarterly, and The Journal of Asian Studies, as well as various newspaper and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, and Foreign Policy. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/world/asia/china-says-it-will-overhaul-re-education-system.html “The risk is we’ll get re-education lite — a system that perpetuates the ability of police to deprive people of liberty for significant periods of time without trial or judicial oversight,” said Nicholas Bequelin, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. “My fear is that such a system would end up being harder to do away with.”

PBS Frontline interview with NB

Links in Wikipedia

 * Ismail Semed
 * Propaganda in the People's Republic of China
 * Ai Weiwei
 * 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests
 * Organ trade