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255. Chen Jieren

Name                       Chen Jieren

Penname                Xiao Shan

Sex                             Male

Birth date               1970-04-12

Birth place             Shuangfeng County, Hunan Province

Resident place     Chenzhou City, Hunan Province

Education              Bachelor of Laws, Tsinghua University (2001)

Profession             President of Hualin Management Consulting Co., Ltd., Beijing City, freelance writer and journalist, former civil servant and reporter Continue reading

Transcript of Interviews with Lawyer Xie Yang (1)

Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang and Liu Zhengqing, January 19, 2017

In a series of interviews, the still incarcerated human rights lawyer Xie Yang provided a detailed account of his arrest, interrogations, and the horrific abuses he suffered at the hands of police and prosecutors, to his two defense lawyers Chen Jiangang (陈建刚) and Liu Zhengqing (刘正清). This revelation, and the extraordinary circumstances of it, mark an important turn in the 709 crackdown on human rights lawyers. This group, seen as the gravest threat to regime security, has not been crushed, but instead has become more courageous and more determined. This is the first of several installments in English translation. — The Editors Continue reading

China Suspends Officials After Lead Poisoning in Hunan Children

2014-06-17

Chinese parents stand next to their children suffering from lead poisoning at a hospital in Anhui province, Jan. 6, 2011.
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