2015-08-26
Lawyer Zhang Kai (C) is shown with two assistants in Wenzhou, Aug. 25, 2015.
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener.
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have detained a top Beijing rights lawyer who was advising local Christians in their bid to resist the demolition of crosses from local churches.
Zhang Kai had recently been based in the coastal city of Wenzhou, Continue reading
China Detains Lawyer in Zhejiang Amid Ongoing Cross Demolition Program已关闭评论
Posted in Human Rights Lawyer, Religious Freedom
Tagged Cross, Demolition, Human Rights Lawyer, Zhang Kai, Zhejiang
2015-08-25
Activists in Hong Kong demonstrate for the release of rights lawyers detained on the Chinese mainland, Aug. 25, 2015.
RFA
Authorities in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin have confirmed they are investigating a top rights lawyer of “subversion,” amid growing calls for the release of dozens of people in a nationwide crackdown on the country’s embattled legal profession.
Bao Longjun, who was detained alongside his wife and fellow rights lawyer Wang Yu on July 9, Continue reading
China Probes Another Top Rights Lawyer For ‘Subversion’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Bao Longjun, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
2015-08-20
Pu Zhiqiang (front right) attends a seminar about the Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing, May 3, 2014.
Photo courtesy of CHRD
Authorities in China’s capital Beijing have again extended the detention of top rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, this time by three months, his attorney confirmed Thursday, adding that Pu has been suffering from health problems during his incarceration.
Pu Zhiqiang, 50, was indicted on May 15 Continue reading
Beijing Court Extends Detention of Top Rights Lawyer by Three Months已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, June 4th, Pu Zhiqiang, Tiananmen
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
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
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
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
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
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Detained, Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
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
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer, Writers in Prison
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu
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
Posted in Headlines, Human Rights Lawyer
Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Xiao Guozhen
