Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu poses during an interview in Hong Kong, March 20, 2014. AFP
As U.S. and Chinese officials met in Beijing to discuss human rights amid calls for greater pressure on the ruling Chinese Communist Party, detained lawyer Wang Yu was awarded a European prize for her work defending the rights of her clients. Continue reading
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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
Defense Attorneys For Jailed Chinese Rights Lawyers ‘Fired’已关闭评论
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A detained Swedish rights activist has appeared on Chinese state television apparently confessing to breaking the law through his group’s activities.
Peter Dahlin has been held since early January amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists. Continue reading
Swedish activist Peter Dahlin ‘confesses’ on China TV已关闭评论
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By Editorial Board January 18 at 6:32 PM
Human rights lawyer Wang Yu talks during an interview with Reuters in Beijing in 2014. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
FOR ALL the semblance of a judicial system, with lawyers, judges and prosecutors, China’s courts remain a tool of a party-state that sees itself as above the law. People can be detained for months — they simply disappear — and only later formally charged or tried. In China, detention means being sucked into the vortex of arbitrary rule. Continue reading
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(New York) – The Chinese authorities’ formal arrest of at least 11 human rights lawyers, legal assistants, and activists on political subversion charges is an unprecedented and grave escalation of attacks on rights defenders in China, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities should immediately drop the charges and release the 11, as well as other lawyers and human rights advocates in custody for political reasons. Continue reading
China: Subversion Charges Target Lawyers已关闭评论
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China Aid
By Rachel Ritchie
(Tianjin, China—Jan. 14, 2016) China Aid learned today that authorities in China’s northern Tianjin Municipality formally arrested a Beijing church elder and democracy activist for “subversion of state power” on Jan. 8, according to an arrest notice received by the man’s family members. Continue reading
Beijing church elder formally arrested after six months in detention已关闭评论
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BEIJING | By Sui-Lee Wee
Human rights lawyer Wang Yu talks during an interview with Reuters in Beijing in this March 1, 2014 photo. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Files
Chinese authorities have formally arrested China’s most prominent woman human rights lawyer, accusing her of subverting the state, her lawyer said on Wednesday, as part of a crackdown on activists who have helped people fight for their legal rights. Continue reading
China arrests most prominent woman rights lawyer for subversion已关闭评论
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© AFP / by Tom Hancock | Li Wenzu tells her three-year old son his daddy is on a “business trip”
TIANJIN (CHINA) (AFP) -Every day Li Wenzu’s son asks her why his daddy has not come home, she says. Her husband went missing six months ago in a sweeping crackdown on Chinese human rights lawyers, but she tells the three-year-old he is on a “business trip”. Continue reading
Anguish for families of missing China lawyers已关闭评论
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