UPDATED at 11:45 A.M. EST on 2015-08-14
Chinese and U.S. officials wrapped up the last day of bilateral human rights talks in Washington on Friday, following growing calls for a tougher line with Beijing on human rights.
Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington on Thursday in protest at the country’s human rights record, citing a recent crackdown on Continue reading
Protests as U.S. Calls For Release of Detained Chinese Rights Lawyers已关闭评论
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Tagged China, Detained, Human Rights Lawyer
2015-08-12
A group of Chinese rights lawyers and activists has called on the United States to put pressure on Beijing at this year’s bilateral human rights dialogue in the wake of a nationwide crackdown on the country’s embattled legal profession and a slew of repressive laws. Continue reading
Chinese Lawyers, Activists Call For a Rights Dialogue With Teeth已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Li Heping, Wang Yu
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW AUGUST 4, 2015 6:57 AM August 4, 2015 6:57 am
Part roll call, part battle hymn, part warning that justice will be done, a new video circulating quietly in China documents the names and faces of some of the more than 200 civil rights lawyers and their associates who have been detained or questioned by the government since July 9, Continue reading
Music Video Puts a Human Face on China’s Sweep of Lawyers已关闭评论
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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
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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
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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
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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
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