CHINA-MILITARY:LEGAL PROCEDURES
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An anonymous blog on the website of the Centre for Civil and Commercial Law of China's Renmin University, in the last week of April 2014, explained that there is a cloak of secrecy over the proceedings of Chinese military courts to prevent foreign observers viewing them. Commenting on the secrecy surrounding the prosecution of General Gu Junshan, which was announced in March, it said:
Cases involving fallen high military officials are generally not made public;
Criminal cases of fallen high officials generally involve military secrets. In Gu Junshan's case, as the deputy chief of the PLA's General Logistics Department, he would have been responsible for the financing, production, supply and storage of military equipment and supplies, all of which are classified as secret by People's Liberation Army (PLA) secrecy regulations;
and finally, a trial that is not open is not the same as a secret trial.
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