Tag Archives: Human Rights Lawyer

Black Ten Minutes: Chinese Lawyer Recounts Being Beating in a Courthouse in Shandong

e78e8be585a8e7928bBy 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

Jailed Chinese Rights Lawyer Dismisses ‘Ethnic Hatred,’ ‘Picking Quarrels’ Charges

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Pu Zhiqiang (front right) attends a seminar about the Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing, May 3, 2014.
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Jailed rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang dismissed charges of “incitement to racial hatred,” and “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” Continue reading

Chinese Rights Lawyer Detained in 2014 Will Stand Trial

 

By CHRIS BUCKLEY  MAY 15, 2015

16China-web-master180Pu Zhiqiang in 2012. Credit Andy Wong/Associated Press
HONG KONG — One of China’s best-known human rights lawyers, Pu Zhiqiang, will stand trial in Beijing on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and picking quarrels, prosecutors said on Friday. Continue reading

China Indicts Top Rights Lawyer on Ethnic Hatred Charge

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Pu Zhiqiang (C), the lawyer for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, talks to the media at the artist’s studio in Beijing, Nov. 14, 2011.
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Authorities in the Chinese capital on Friday indicted a prominent rights lawyer for Continue reading

Chinese Rights Lawyer Marks Ten Months Under House Arrest

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Gao Zhisheng during an interview at his ofe0fc87e8-65f8-441a-9df8-5a751b378bacfice in Beijing, in a file photo.
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Top Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng remains effectively under house arrest, Continue reading

China Extends Detention of Rights Lawyer Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary

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Pu Zhiqiang (front right) attends a seminar about the Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing, May 3, 2014.
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Authorities in the Chinese capital have once more extended the detention of prominent rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who has now spent a year behind bars without trial, after he marked Continue reading

Prominent China rights lawyer could face harsher charges: attorney

BY SUI-LEE WEE AND MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN

BEIJING Thu Nov 20, 2014 6:00am EST
Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in BeijingChinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang talks to media in Beijing in this July 20, 2012 picture.
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(Reuters) – Chinese prosecutors could upgrade the charges against a Continue reading

Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang faces more charges as police hand case to prosecutors

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Activist attorney Pu Zhiqiang is accused of a total of four offences as investigators hand his case to prosecutors in next step towards trial

PUBLISHED : Friday, 21 November, 2014, 3:08am UPDATED : Friday, 21 November, 2014, 9:34am
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Beijing police had handed over the case of human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang to Continue reading