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China Jails Human Rights Lawyer for 7 Years on Subversion Charges

Television screen shot of Chinese lawyer Zhou Shifeng being escorted by police officers

Television screen shot of Chinese lawyer Zhou Shifeng being escorted by police officers to Tianjin No.2 Intermediate People’s Court in Tianjin, Aug. 4, 2016.

A court in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin sentenced a leading human rights lawyer to seven years in prison on Thursday, the third subversion trial this week of attorneys and activists who were rounded up in a sweeping crackdown on rights defenders a year ago. Continue reading

China charges human rights lawyers with ‘subversion’

Zhou Shifeng

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’s Crackdown on Rights Lawyers Shows No Sign of Abating

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China intensified its sweeping crackdown on human rights lawyers and legal activists on Tuesday, as the country’s state media shrugged off growing international condemnation and lawyers under threat warned that the country’s already fragile rule of law would be further weakened.

The mass arrest drive that opened Continue reading

Chinese Authorities Appear to Detain 4 Human Rights Lawyers

By CHRIS BUCKLEY  zhoushifengJULY 10, 2015

HONG KONG — The police detained one of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers in Beijing on Friday, after three other rights lawyers who worked together disappeared in the capital within 24 hours, apparently caught in an expanding investigation focused on their firm, their colleagues and family members said.

The reasons for moves against the lawyers remained unclear. Continue reading