2015-08-07
Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu poses during an interview in Hong Kong, March 20, 2014.
AFP
Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin are holding a top rights lawyer under “residential surveillance” on suspicion of subversion, denying her visits from her defense attorney amid an ongoing crackdown on the legal profession, rights groups and lawyers said on Friday.
Wang Yu’s lawyer Li Yuhan received an official notification Continue reading
Chinese Rights Lawyer Wang Yu Held For ‘Subversion’ As Crackdown Continues已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
By XIAO GUOZHEN August 4, 2015
Golden Cosmos
Until two years ago, I lived in Beijing and belonged to a loosely organized group of legal professionals known among ordinary Chinese as weiquan lushi, or rights defense lawyers. The government called us “a criminal gang” that disturbed social order because we openly challenged the way the Communist Party controlled China’s legal system. Most of the people we helped were seen by officials as troublemakers: petitioners whose houses had been forcibly demolished, political dissidents, members of Christian house churches, Falun Gong practitioners, and migrant workers bullied by their urban employers.
In 2013, I came to the United States as Continue reading
XIAO GUOZHEN: China vs. Its Human Rights Lawyers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Xiao Guozhen
2015-08-05
A man surfs the Internet at a coffee shop in Beijing in a file photo.
AFP
The ruling Chinese Communist Party looks set to further tighten its grip on the nation’s 650 million netizens with the stationing of specialist police officers in major Internet companies.
“We will further deepen and expand our Continue reading
China to Send Police Officers Into Internet Companies to Curb ‘Lawbreaking’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
2015-08-06
A file photo of Gao Yu speaking in Hong Kong.
AFP
Human rights and press freedom groups on Thursday called on Beijing to release veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who is currently serving a jail term for “leaking state secrets,” amid fears that her health may be rapidly deteriorating.
Gao, 71, currently suffers from chronic heart pain, Continue reading
Human Rights, Press Freedom Groups Call For Release of Jailed Chinese Journalist已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, Journalist
2015-08-04
Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who has been held on questionable charges since May 2014, in an undated file photo.
AFP
Authorities in the Chinese capital have once more extended the criminal detention of a top rights lawyer, his attorney said, amid an ongoing crackdown on the country’s legal profession.
Pu Zhiqiang, 50, was indicted on May 15 for “incitement to racial hatred” and “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” after being held in criminal detention for more than a year.
While the move should mean his case now moves to trial, Continue reading
Beijing Extends Detention of Top Rights Lawyer Amid Ongoing Crackdown已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Li Heping, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
2015-08-03
Hong Kong resident signs postcard calling for release of Chinese rights lawyers, Aug. 2, 2015.
RFA
Activists in Hong Kong have launched a postcard campaign targeting Chinese officials over the detention of dozens of rights lawyers in a nationwide crackdown on the country’s embattled legal profession.
By 4.00 p.m. local time on Monday, at least 265 lawyers, law firm staff, Continue reading
Hong Kong Activists Write to Chinese Police Calling For Lawyers’ Release已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged China, Detained, Hong Kong, Human Rights Lawyer
Published: July 26, 2015
“This vulgar, uncultured lot is the spawn of the Maoist period and Maoist thinking. They are carrying out the legalist ideas of Han Feizi (韩非子), getting rid of anyone they cannot convert to their own views. As a result, the prisons are filled with the moaning of prisoners of conscience, while state media clamors with slavish voices.”
When I was a reporter at Southern Weekly (《南方周末》) [2000-2003], I crossed paths with lots of different types of lawyers. Sometimes they were allies, other Continue reading
Zhai Minglei: Getting Rid of Lawyers Is the Start of Fascism已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Detained, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
British embassy officials say celebrated Chinese artist failed to declare his record on application – but supporters say he was never actually charged with a crime
Ai Weiwei with his recently returned passport. Photograph: Ai Weiwei/EPA
Tom Phillips in Beijing
Thursday 30 July 2015 02.52 EDT Last modified on Thursday 30 July 2015 02.57 EDT
The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has accused British authorities of turning their backs on human rights defenders after UK immigration officials rejected his application Continue reading
