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Legal experts have doubts as to whether the new legislation will have much relevance in a system where “political clout remains above the law.”
China’s Supreme Court has proposed a new law that would allow it to detain and even temporarily disbar defense lawyers for taking pictures during trials, making audio or video recordings, and emailing or blogging information about court proceedings and cases.
Chinese society thus is strictly divided into rural and urban by a system called hukou, or household registration, and it extends across generational lines.
