Philanthropy News Digest
April 29, 2016
China's national legislature has passed a law
that tightens controls over foreign nongovernmental organizations, a move
critics say will have a detrimental impact on civil society in the country, the Associated Press and Wall Street Journal report.
In its third and final version, the law states
that foreign NGOs must not endanger China's national security and ethnic unity
and leaves unchanged the controversial provision putting the Ministry of Public
Security in charge of the registration process for overseas nonprofits. The law
grants police the power to question administrators, search residences and
facilities, seize files and equipment, and blacklist "unwelcome"
groups and prevent them from operating in the country if they commit
violations, including "spreading rumors, slandering, or otherwise
expressing or disseminating harmful information that endangers state
security."
