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Wife of Detained Lawyer Accuses Beijing Police of Harassment

A delivery cart and cyclist ride past a building housing the Fengrui law firm in Beijing

A delivery cart and cyclist ride past a building housing the Fengrui law firm in Beijing. Several lawyers from the firm have been targeted by authorities.

The wife of a detained human rights lawyer in China has accused Beijing police of harassing her landlord and forcing him not to renew her lease. Continue reading

Defense Attorneys For Jailed Chinese Rights Lawyers ‘Fired’

The defense attorney for jailed rights lawyer Li Heping discovered he was relieved of duty

The defense attorney for jailed rights lawyer Li Heping discovered he was relieved of duty when he visited his client in detention, Feb. 18, 2016.

A number of prominent Chinese human rights lawyers being held on suspicion of subversion have allegedly “fired” their defense attorneys, but those familiar with the case said it was the authorities who terminated the defenders. Continue reading

Tom Phillips : Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer missing for six months tells of despair

Li Heping was taken from his home in July and has not been seen since along with dozens of other attorneys amid a crackdown on dissidents
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Li Heping, a well-known human rights lawyers, has been missing in China since 10 July 2015. ‘I never thought this country could be so corrupt,’ his wife said. Photograph: Supplied

Six months after her husband was spirited into secret detention by security forces, the wife of one of China’s top civil rights lawyers has spoken of her grief and despair. Continue reading

Wang Qiaoling’s battle to find missing lawyer husband, Li Heping

 

By John Sudworth

BBC News, Beijing

Wang Qiaoling has not heard from her husband Li Heping since he was taken away two months ago

Faced with injustice. there are many people in China who make a perfectly understandable choice: it is better to protect yourself and your family than to risk the wrath of the authorities by speaking out.

And then there Continue reading

Relatives of Recently Disappeared Lawyers and Activists Write a Letter to China’s Minister of Public Security

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Relatives of Recently Disappeared Lawyers and Activists Write a Letter to China’s Minister of Public Security

On the eve of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced

Disappearances (August 30)

Published: August 29, 2015

“Such fear and panic do not beset these lawyers and their families only; they beset the entire Chinese society.”

Honorable Mr. Guo Shengkun (郭声琨),

We don’t know if you will be able to read this letter, but we are writing it regardless in the hope that you may. We do not want to let slip the slightest hope. Continue reading

Chinese Lawyers, Activists Call For a Rights Dialogue With Teeth

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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

Beijing Extends Detention of Top Rights Lawyer Amid Ongoing Crackdown

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Rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who has been held on questionable charges since May 2014, in an undated file photo.
AFP

Authorities in the Chinese capital have once more extended the criminal detention of a top rights lawyer, his attorney said, amid an ongoing crackdown on the country’s legal profession.

Pu Zhiqiang, 50, was indicted on May 15 for “incitement to racial hatred” and “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” after being held in criminal detention for more than a year.

While the move should mean his case now moves to trial, Continue reading