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Lawyer’s Teen Son Missing in Widening Crackdown on China’s Rights Attorneys

2015-07-17

imageBeijing-based lawyer Wang Yu in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Wang Yu’s microblog

Police in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin have taken the 16-year-old son of detained rights attorney Wang Yu from his home amid an ongoing crackdown on the country’s embattled legal profession, lawyers told RFA on Friday.

Wang’s detention on July 9 came amid a raid on her law firm, Fengrui, Continue reading

China’s Crackdown on Rights Lawyers Shows No Sign of Abating

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China intensified its sweeping crackdown on human rights lawyers and legal activists on Tuesday, as the country’s state media shrugged off growing international condemnation and lawyers under threat warned that the country’s already fragile rule of law would be further weakened.

The mass arrest drive that opened Continue reading

Chinese Authorities Appear to Detain 4 Human Rights Lawyers

By CHRIS BUCKLEY  zhoushifengJULY 10, 2015

HONG KONG — The police detained one of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers in Beijing on Friday, after three other rights lawyers who worked together disappeared in the capital within 24 hours, apparently caught in an expanding investigation focused on their firm, their colleagues and family members said.

The reasons for moves against the lawyers remained unclear. Continue reading

Beijing Rights Lawyer ‘Missing,’ Believed Detained: Lawyer

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Beijing-based lawyer Wang Yu in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Wang Yu’s microblog
Prominent rights attorney Wang Yu is missing from her Beijing home, presumedly detained by China’s state security police, rights activists and lawyers said.

Wang, who has defended high profile activists, including jailed Uyghur dissident Ilham Tohti, Cao Shunli and Wu Gan, has been incommunicado since the early hours of Continue reading