Category Archives: Human Rights Lawyer

Gao Zhisheng: Join Them, and Prove Your Worth by Helping China’s Historic Change

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 – A commentary in the wake of false charges against Guo Feixiong

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Translated by Matthew Robertson; posted on December 3, 2015

 

GAO ZHISHENG AND GUO FEIXIONG IN 2006.

Gao Zhisheng composed the following letter after hearing about the six year prison sentence handed to rights activist Guo Feixiong, and after reading Guo’s spirited defense and condemnation of the Party’s rule. As the letter made the rounds on social media, the Chinese authorities promptly cut off Gao’s cell phone service and placed him under house arrest in his late mother’s cave dwelling in Shaanxi Province. Both Gao Zhisheng and Guo Feixiong are Christians. — The Editors Continue reading →

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Charges Against Top Chinese Rights Lawyer Based on Seven Tweets

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2015-12-08

27377106-6133-46e2-bdff-33fdba938497Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who has been held on questionable charges since May 2014, in an undated file photo.
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Authorities in the Chinese capital on Tuesday indicated for the first time that racial hatred and public order charges against a top human rights lawyer are based on a handful of his tweets, Continue reading →

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Dissident Chinese Lawyer ‘Incommunicado’ After Online Anger Over Activist’s Sentence

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2015-12-02

e0fc87e8-65f8-441a-9df8-5a751b378bacGao Zhisheng during an interview at his office in Beijing, in a file photo.
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UPDATED at 1:50 p.m. EST on 2015-12-02

Dissident rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who remains under house arrest since his release from prison in August 2014, has ‘disappeared’ once more, his friends and family told RFA.

Gao, who is still denied any freedom of movement and access to much-needed medical treatment, lost contact with the outside world after he spoke out against the jailing of a fellow rights lawyer in the southern city of Guangzhou, Gao’s wife Geng He told RFA.

“I called Gao Zhisheng’s older brother last night but he was mumbling with Continue reading →

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Chinese Rights Advocate Known as Guo Feixiong Convicted of Unexpected New Charge

Posted on 11/30/2015 by | Chinese Rights Advocate Known as Guo Feixiong Convicted of Unexpected New Charge已关闭评论

By CHRIS BUCKLEY NOV. 27, 2015
28china-master180Yang Maodong, a veteran protester better known by his pen name, Guo Feixiong. Credit Zhang Qing

BEIJING — Yang Maodong, a hardened veteran of political protest in southern China, knew he had virtually no hope of winning his freedom on Friday when he was brought into a courtroom to face a judge’s verdict on charges that he had disturbed public order.

Chinese judges, after all, convict and imprison indicted dissidents with metronomic consistency, reflecting the ruling Communist Party’s control of the courts.

Still, Mr. Yang — a human rights campaigner better Continue reading →

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China’s Plan to ‘Rank’ Lawyers Faces Criticism

Posted on 11/22/2015 by | China’s Plan to ‘Rank’ Lawyers Faces Criticism已关闭评论

temp_15112023459558Joyce Huang

November 20, 2015 5:32 AM

China has drawn international criticism over a crackdown on human rights lawyers this year, and there are reports that authorities may be planning even broader restrictions over the legal profession.

Remin University law professor Chen Weidong, who has helped draft legislation including amendments to China’s criminal law, said authorities may soon launch a mechanism to Continue reading →

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Rights Lawyers in China Routinely Face Abuse, Report Says

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By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ  NOV. 12, 2015

BEIJING — Legal activists and those suspected of crimes in China are routinely abused and mistreated at the hands of law enforcement officials, a report released on Thursday by Amnesty International found, despite recent efforts by the government to crack down on inhumane judicial practices.

The report found that much of the abuse is directed at lawyers, who have come under increasing pressure amid a vigorous campaign by President Xi Jinping to rein in dissent Continue reading →

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Calls Grow to Free Tortured Rights Lawyer Ahead of U.N. Review

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2015-11-12

image (17)Chinese human rights lawyer and torture victim Gao Zhisheng, in undated photograph.
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Dissident rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who remains under house arrest since his release from prison in August 2014, has been denied permission by the Chinese police to see a dentist for treatment after losing teeth to torture — for reasons of ‘national security.’

Gao was prevented earlier this week from traveling to Xi’an, Continue reading →

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More Than We Wish to Know: Chen Guangcheng and the Truth about Chinese Human Rights Abuses

Posted on 11/03/2015 by | More Than We Wish to Know: Chen Guangcheng and the Truth about Chinese Human Rights Abuses已关闭评论

by Arthur Waldron
within Book Reviews, Foreign Affairs

October 30th, 2015

We hear endlessly of “change” and “reform” in China, and the United States has premised its policies on these promises. The memoirs of Chen Guangcheng paint a very different portrait.

Strength—a simple but seemingly superhuman strength of both conscience and body—is the great uniting theme of the story of Chen Guangcheng. Yet his deeply revealing memoirs, titled The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s Fight for Justice and Freedom in China, not only give us a glimpse into Continue reading →

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