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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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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JULY 31, 2015 7:00 AM July 31, 2015 7:00 am
On the night of July 11, the police in Guangzhou came for the human rights lawyer Ge Wenxiu. They threatened to break down his door. Publish Date July 31, 2015.
Three weeks after the Chinese authorities began a sweep of human rights lawyers around the country, photographs and video have emerged of some of the raids that have so far Continue reading
Police Raids on Chinese Lawyers: The View From the Inside已关闭评论
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Reuters
July 19, 2015 7:47 AM
BEIJING—Chinese human rights lawyers arrested during a recent crackdown have pleaded guilty to a range of offenses including inciting disorder, the country’s main Communist Party newspaper reported on Sunday.
Nine lawyers and four other staff members at the Fengrui legal Continue reading
Detained Chinese Lawyers Plead Guilty to Disorder Charges已关闭评论
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2015-07-17
Beijing-based lawyer Wang Yu in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Wang Yu’s microblog
Police in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin have taken the 16-year-old son of detained rights attorney Wang Yu from his home amid an ongoing crackdown on the country’s embattled legal profession, lawyers told RFA on Friday.
Wang’s detention on July 9 came amid a raid on her law firm, Fengrui, Continue reading
Lawyer’s Teen Son Missing in Widening Crackdown on China’s Rights Attorneys已关闭评论
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2015-07-16
Three top Chinese rights lawyers are at “grave risk of torture” amid a massive police operation targeting the country’s embattled legal profession, an international rights group said on Thursday.
Some 200 lawyers, paralegals, and rights activists have been targeted by China’s Continue reading
Chinese Lawyers ‘At Risk of Torture’ as Crackdown Continues已关闭评论
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2015-07-14
China intensified its sweeping crackdown on human rights lawyers and legal activists on Tuesday, as the country’s state media shrugged off growing international condemnation and lawyers under threat warned that the country’s already fragile rule of law would be further weakened.
The mass arrest drive that opened Continue reading
China’s Crackdown on Rights Lawyers Shows No Sign of Abating已关闭评论
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By CHRIS BUCKLEY JULY 11, 2015
CHONG KONG — At least five Chinese lawyers from a firm that specialized in rights cases have been detained by the police in Beijing and accused of running a criminal syndicate to smear the Communist Party and “create social chaos” through their litigation, state-run news media said on Saturday.
The accusations bear the hallmarks of a concerted operation, and signaled one of the most high-profile efforts by the party under President Xi Jinping to discredit the “rights defense movement,” Continue reading
Chinese Authorities Detain and Denounce Rights Lawyers已关闭评论
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