Simon Lewis
Jan. 26, 2016
In this image made from undated video released by China Central Television, Peter Dahlin, a Swedish co-founder of a human-rights group, speaks on camera in an unknown location
‘Three of my colleagues and close friends are still incarcerated,’ the deported activist says. Continue reading
Swedish Activist Peter Dahlin Concerned Over Colleagues In Chinese Prisons已关闭评论
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Tagged CCTV, Peter Dahlin, Sweden, Wang Quanzhang
(New York) – The Chinese authorities’ formal arrest of at least 11 human rights lawyers, legal assistants, and activists on political subversion charges is an unprecedented and grave escalation of attacks on rights defenders in China, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities should immediately drop the charges and release the 11, as well as other lawyers and human rights advocates in custody for political reasons. Continue reading
China: Subversion Charges Target Lawyers已关闭评论
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Tagged arrest, Hu Shigen, lawyers, Liu Sixin, Subversion, Wang Quanzhang, Wang Yu, Xie Yanyi, Zhao Wei
Zhou Shifeng is one of several Chinese lawyers who disappeared last year
China has formally arrested and charged at least seven human rights lawyers and associates with “subversion”, friends and relatives say. Continue reading
China charges human rights lawyers with ‘subversion’已关闭评论
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Tagged arrest, Lawyer, Subversion, Wang Quanzhang, Zhou Shifeng
© AFP / by Tom Hancock | Li Wenzu tells her three-year old son his daddy is on a “business trip”
TIANJIN (CHINA) (AFP) -Every day Li Wenzu’s son asks her why his daddy has not come home, she says. Her husband went missing six months ago in a sweeping crackdown on Chinese human rights lawyers, but she tells the three-year-old he is on a “business trip”. Continue reading
Anguish for families of missing China lawyers已关闭评论
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Tagged Lawyer, Tianjin, Wang Quanzhang, Wang Yu
By Wang Quanzhang, published: June 30, 2015
On June 18 I went to Liaocheng City in Shandong Province (山东聊城) to participate in the defense of a number of Falun Gong practitioners. Gaining the right to actually mount a defense, as a defense lawyer, before Continue reading
Black Ten Minutes: Chinese Lawyer Recounts Being Beating in a Courthouse in Shandong已关闭评论
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