Samantha Power
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Washington, DC
September 1, 2015
AS DELIVERED
AMBASSADOR POWER: Thank you. Good afternoon. Twenty years ago, 189 governments and approximately 30,000 nongovernmental organizations – activists from around the globe convened in Beijing for a world conference to advance gender equality and women’s rights. Continue reading
Samantha Power: Remarks at the FreeThe20 Campaign Launch已关闭评论
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Published: July 26, 2015
“This vulgar, uncultured lot is the spawn of the Maoist period and Maoist thinking. They are carrying out the legalist ideas of Han Feizi (韩非子), getting rid of anyone they cannot convert to their own views. As a result, the prisons are filled with the moaning of prisoners of conscience, while state media clamors with slavish voices.”
When I was a reporter at Southern Weekly (《南方周末》) [2000-2003], I crossed paths with lots of different types of lawyers. Sometimes they were allies, other Continue reading
Zhai Minglei: Getting Rid of Lawyers Is the Start of Fascism已关闭评论
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JULY 31, 2015 7:00 AM July 31, 2015 7:00 am
On the night of July 11, the police in Guangzhou came for the human rights lawyer Ge Wenxiu. They threatened to break down his door. Publish Date July 31, 2015.
Three weeks after the Chinese authorities began a sweep of human rights lawyers around the country, photographs and video have emerged of some of the raids that have so far Continue reading
Police Raids on Chinese Lawyers: The View From the Inside已关闭评论
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By China Change, published: July 23, 2015.
Chinese government has been reining in rights lawyers, a group of law practitioners passionate about seeking social justice by fighting a judicial system riddled with injustices. On July 10, China astounded the world by arresting dozens of them (some were released later). Over 200 more in 24 provinces have since been summoned for questioning. Below are short biographies of those who have remained in custody or forced disappearance.
13 Lawyers and Staffers
WANG YU. CREDIT: AFP
Wang Yu (王宇), age 44, is from Ulanhot, Inner Mongolia. She graduated with a degree in law from China University of Political Science and Law in 1994 and at the time of her Continue reading
Biographies of Lawyers, Staffers and Activists Detained or Disappeared in the July 10 Nationwide Raid Against Rights Lawyers已关闭评论
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