Tag Archives: Human Rights Lawyer

Teng Biao:Beyond Stability Maintenance – From Surveillance to Elimination

By Teng Biao, published: June 22, 2014

 

June 4th has passed, but the arrests continue, and every day brings bad news from China. While scholar Xu Youyu, artist Chen Guang and others have been released “on probation,” Continue reading

China Activist to Stand Trial, Lawyer Says

By CHRIS BUCKLEY JUNE 24, 2014
HONG KONG — Prosecutors in southern China have decided to put on trial a well-known human rights campaigner, Yang Maodong, on charges of disrupting public order, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Continue reading

Families ‘Shocked’ Over Subversion Charge For Chinese Rights Lawyers

 


An undated photo of Tang Jingling.

Photo courtesy of Tang’s wife Wang Yanfang

Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have formally arrested prominent human rights lawyer Tang Jingling Continue reading

Civil rights lawyers have vital role to play in China – South China Morning Post

June 22, 2014 – An editorial published in the South China Morning Post on Sunday believed that Chinese authorities should highly value its civil rights lawyers, Continue reading

The Website of Pu Zhiqiang:http://lawyerpu.com/

Pu Zhiqiang is a prominent civil rights lawyer in Beijing, well known internationally and in the mainstream Chinese media for his work in protecting free speech and abolishing labour camps in China, among other issues. Continue reading

Jail Term of China’s Human Rights Lawyer to End in August

2014-06-20


Gao Zhisheng during an interview at his office in Beijing, in a file photo.
AFP
Jailed human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, one of China’s highest-profile dissidents, is scheduled to complete his three-year prison term at a remote jail in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang in early August, Continue reading

China arrests a lawyer for urging it to uphold its laws

BY EDITORIAL BOARD June 18 at 7:46 PM

A SINGLE thread seems to run through recent detentions and arrests in China: The authorities are cracking down on lawyers and other people who have demanded that China follow its own laws. Continue reading

Chinese rights lawyers warn of crackdown after arrest of Pu Zhiqiang

Detentions of artist Ai Weiwei’s lawyer and numerous others reveal Beijing’s fear about growth in rights activism, says

Tania Branigan in Beijing

theguardian.com, Tuesday 17 June 2014 10.09 EDT

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