2015-10-15
Wang Yu (L) and her son Bao Zhuoxuan (R) in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of a family friend.
As the United States expressed concern over the plight of the 16-year-old son of two detained Chinese rights lawyers, the country’s tightly controlled state media Continue reading
Detained Chinese Lawyers’ Son Smuggled to Myanmar by Banned Opposition Party: State Media已关闭评论
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2015-10-14
Wang Yu (L) and Bao Zhuoxuan (R) in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Bao Zhuoxuan
The teenage son of two detained Chinese rights lawyers was detained alongside two friends and fellow activists in a cross-border police operation in a rebel-controlled part of Continue reading
Chinese Police Worked With Myanmar Rebels to Arrest Son of Detained Rights Lawyers: Sources已关闭评论
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By MICHAEL FORSYTHE OCT. 12, 2015
HONG KONG — The 16-year-old son of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer is now living under house arrest in northern China after being snatched at a Myanmar border town last week as he was trying to escape to the United States, a family friend said.
Bao Zhuoxuan, the son of the prominent human rights lawyer Wang Yu, Continue reading
Bao Zhuoxuan, Son of Rights Lawyer Held in China, Is Said to Be Under House Arrest已关闭评论
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015-10-07
Rights lawyers like Pu Zhiqiang (front right, in May 3, 2014 photo) are an endangered species in China.
Photo courtesy of China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD).
Dozens of Chinese lawyers have written to the country’s parliament calling for an end to legal requirements that they join their professional association, amid an ongoing crackdown on the embattled legal profession.
The letter calls for the repeal of Clause 15 of China’s Continue reading
Chinese Lawyers Call For The Abolition of Their Professional Body已关闭评论
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2015-10-02
Zhong Jinhua (R) and a colleague in Shenzhen in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of 
Zhong Jinhua, a former judge at the Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang who became a lawyer to escape political interference, arrived last month in the United States along with his family.
His arrival on Sept. 4 coincided with a nationwide police operation targeting human Continue reading
‘Chinese Lawyers Live in Constant Fear’: Former Chinese Judge已关闭评论
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2015-09-30
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ctivist and businessman Huang Yongxiang in undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Chen Keyun.
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have released on ‘bail’ four activists who launched a T-shirt campaign in support of detained human rights lawyers, amid an ongoing crackdown on the country’s embattled legal profession.
Police in Guangdong’s Zengcheng city had detained Liu Yajie Continue reading
Chinese Activists Who Made Lawyer T-Shirts Released on ‘Bail’已关闭评论
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2015-09-09
Activists in Hong Kong demonstrate for the release of rights lawyers detained on the Chinese mainland, Aug. 25, 2015.
RFA
Two months after Chinese police carried out a midnight raid on the home of prominent human rights lawyer Wang Yu and her husband, sparking a nationwide police operation targeting hundreds of attorneys, her lawyers marched to a police station near where she is believed to be held to demand a meeting with Wang.
Li Weida and Lu Zhoubin, Continue reading
Two Months On, Lawyers For China’s Detained Attorneys Still Don’t Know Where They Are已关闭评论
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By John Sudworth
BBC News, Beijing
Wang Qiaoling has not heard from her husband Li Heping since he was taken away two months ago
Faced with injustice. there are many people in China who make a perfectly understandable choice: it is better to protect yourself and your family than to risk the wrath of the authorities by speaking out.
And then there Continue reading
Wang Qiaoling’s battle to find missing lawyer husband, Li Heping已关闭评论
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