By CHRIS BUCKLEY 
JULY 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
Chinese Authorities Appear to Detain 4 Human Rights Lawyers已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu, Wu Gan, Zhou Shifeng
2015-07-10
Beijing-based lawyer Wang Yu in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Wang Yu’s microblog
Prominent rights attorney Wang Yu is missing from her Beijing home, presumedly detained by China’s state security police, rights activists and lawyers said.
Wang, who has defended high profile activists, including jailed Uyghur dissident Ilham Tohti, Cao Shunli and Wu Gan, has been incommunicado since the early hours of Continue reading
Beijing Rights Lawyer ‘Missing,’ Believed Detained: Lawyer已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
2015-07-09
A draft cybersecurity law published by the National People’s Congress (NPC) looks set to formalize and extend Beijing’s already tight grip on the Chinese Internet, although official media denied it would curb people’s online freedom.
The draft law aims to “ensure network security, [and] safeguard the sovereignty of Continue reading
China’s Draft Online Security Law Could Further Tighten State Control of Netizens已关闭评论
Posted in Internet Freedom
Tagged censorship, China, Internet Freedom
2015-07-07
Occupy Central leader Joshua Wong speaks to the media after a vote at the city’s legislature in Hong Kong, June 18, 2015.
AFP
Four Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, including Occupy Central student leader Joshua Wong, face charges of obstructing the police in the course of their duty, Continue reading
Hong Kong Charges Four Over Public Burning of Beijing’s Policy Paper已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Hong Kong Democracy
Tagged Democracy, Hong Kong, Occupy Central movement
2015-07-08
Former Tiananmen student protest leader Xiong Yan has called on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to allow him to return home to bury his mother.
Xiong, 50, was briefly detained at Hong Kong’s border with China in April when he tried to visit his then terminally ill mother.
His plight mirrors that of dozens of exiled Continue reading
Former 1989 Student Leader Calls On Beijing Allow Him to Attend Mother’s Funeral已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
2015-07-06
Five Chinese feminists detained f
or planning an anti-sexual harassment campaign and since released on “bail” have written to the United Nations in a bid to make their release unconditional.
Wu Rongrong, Li Tingting, Wei Tingting, Wang Man, and Zheng Churan were released “on bail” in April after being detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” on March 6, Continue reading
China’s Five Feminists Call For UN Pressure on Beijing已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines
Tagged China, Five, Woman’s Rights Activists
By Wang Quanzhang, published: June 30, 2015
On June 18 I went to Liaocheng City in Shandong Province (山东聊城) to participate in the defense of a number of Falun Gong practitioners. Gaining the right to actually mount a defense, as a defense lawyer, before Continue reading
Black Ten Minutes: Chinese Lawyer Recounts Being Beating in a Courthouse in Shandong已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Quanzhang
