Family members of Chinese human rights lawyers jailed since a July 2015 crackdown, in undated photo. Courtesy of an RFA listener.
Rights activists in China have launched a greetings card campaign for political prisoners around the country ahead of Chinese New Year celebrations on Jan. 30, as foreign diplomats paid visits to embattled activists faced with eviction in Beijing. Continue reading
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Detained Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang is shown with his daughter in an undated photo. Photo sent by an RFA listener
A rights group on Tuesday called for the immediate release of detained Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang, detailing his lawyers’ reports of his torture in a police-run detention center in the central province of Hunan. Continue reading
Detained Chinese Rights Lawyer Files Complaint Over Torture in Detention已关闭评论
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Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang, January 21, 2017
Xie Yang and wife
Continued from Part One and Part Two
[The interview began at 2:49:55 p.m. on January 5, 2017.] Continue reading
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Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang, January 20, 2017
Xie Yang
Continued from Part One
(The interview started at 9:23:32 a.m. on January 5, 2017)
Chen Jiangang (陈建刚, “CHEN”): Today Lawyer Liu Zhengqing (刘正清) had to go back. Let’s continue our interview. Continue reading
Transcript of Interviews with Lawyer Xie Yang (2) – Sleep Deprivation已关闭评论
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Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang and Liu Zhengqing, January 19, 2017
In a series of interviews, the still incarcerated human rights lawyer Xie Yang provided a detailed account of his arrest, interrogations, and the horrific abuses he suffered at the hands of police and prosecutors, to his two defense lawyers Chen Jiangang (陈建刚) and Liu Zhengqing (刘正清). This revelation, and the extraordinary circumstances of it, mark an important turn in the 709 crackdown on human rights lawyers. This group, seen as the gravest threat to regime security, has not been crushed, but instead has become more courageous and more determined. This is the first of several installments in English translation. — The Editors Continue reading
Transcript of Interviews with Lawyer Xie Yang (1)已关闭评论
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Xie Yanyi with his family. Photo: CHRLCG.
Human rights lawyer Xie Yanyi has been reunited with his family on Wednesday after being detained for around 18 months, according to the Hong Kong-based China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group. Continue reading
Chinese human rights lawyer Xie Yanyi reunited with family after 18 months in detention已关闭评论
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709 Crackdown: Latest data and development of cases as of 1800 16th December 2016已关闭评论
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An Update on Lawyer Li Chunfu’s Condition已关闭评论
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