Dui Hua Hosts Prof. Dan Wei for Exchanges on Human Rights

As part of its continuing efforts to further dialogue on issues of human rights and criminal justice, The Dui Hua Foundation welcomed Prof. Dan Wei to San Francisco during the week from March 10 to March 17, 2007. An intensive program of activities surrounded Prof. Dan’s visit, including lectures, visits to prison and detention facilities, observance of local judicial proceedings, and meetings with academics, judges, and attorneys.

Prof. Dan, who is a professor and senior researcher at the Institute for Procuratorial Theory of China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate, is a recognized expert on a variety of topics related to Chinese criminal justice and edits the journal Chinese Criminal Science. He has many years of experience working within the procuratorate, which is the branch of China’s legal system concerned primarily with prosecution, investigation of official corruption, and supervision of other legal institutions such as the police, courts, and prisons and reeducation-through-labor facilities.

Prof. Dan’s visit was supported by Dui Hua’s Special Program/Development Fund, established in 2005 in large part to fund activities that promote cooperation between the foundation and officials working for human rights in China. By furthering exchanges such as this and last year’s visit by Prof. Li Shi’an of the China Society for Human Rights Studies, Dui Hua hopes that to bring about greater understanding and cooperation on issues of mutual concern with respect to legal reform and human rights in the United States and China.