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Chinese Lawyers Who Highlight Abuse of Clients To Lose Jobs Under New Rules

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A screen shot from the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group’s Facebook page showing detained family members and attorneys, June 7, 2016. RFA

Rights activists and lawyers have hit out at new regulations brought in by the ruling Chinese Communist Party placing further restrictions on lawyers’ ability to protest abuses of judicial power. Continue reading

Chinese Legal Assistant Moved Amid Fears of Abuse in Detention

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Detained legal assistant Zhou Wei is shown in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of New Citizens Movement

Following unconfirmed reports that she was sexually abused in detention, authorities in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin have transferred a legal assistant jailed during last year’s nationwide police operation targeting human rights lawyers to an unknown location, RFA has learned. Continue reading

Lawyers Hit Out At Chinese Police Amid Rumors of Detainee Abuse

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Detained legal assistant Zhao Wei, shown in an undated photo from the rights website Weiquanwang. Weiquanwang

Amid unconfirmed reports that she has been sexually abused in detention, authorities are preventing a defense attorney from seeing a legal assistant jailed during last year’s nationwide police operation targeting human rights lawyers, RFA has learned. Continue reading