He Weifang

He Weifang (Chinese贺 卫 方, Pinyin He Weifang, * 1960 in the then district Muping, today the municipality Muping (牟平 区) of Yantai City, Shandong Province, People's Republic of China ) is a professor of law at Peking University and editor of the journal " Chinese and international law " (Chinese中外 法学, Pinyin Zōngwài Fǎxué ).

He studied from 1978 to 1982 Southwest China University of Politics and Law in Chongqing and got 1985 LL.M. at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, where he also taught after graduating. In 1995 he became professor of Peking University. In 2005, he announced in an open letter to teach more in legal history as a protest against the inappropriate admission test no Masters and PhD students. In 2008 he taught at the Guanghua Law School of Zhejiang University, but returned in 2009 for a short time back to the Peking University back before he was transferred in March 2009 for two years at the University of Shihezi in Xinjiang. While it is officially spoken of a " academic cooperation," go other dissidents believe that this was done to political pressure.

He is committed to reforming the Chinese legal system and calls for a more independent judiciary and an improvement of the petition system. Furthermore, He calls for a social reform, and even brought the idea into the game to share the Chinese Communist Party. Together with other jurists He turned to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to abolish the " re-education through labor" in China. In the grounds it is based on the article 37 of the Constitution of the People 's Republic of China, which aims to secure the freedom of a person, as well as international treaties on human rights, which China has signed. In December 2008 he supported together with 302 other intellectuals published on the Internet manifesto with demands for the realization of human rights in China (Charter 08).

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