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XIAO GUOZHEN: China vs. Its Human Rights Lawyers

 

01xiao-articleLarge-v2By XIAO GUOZHEN August 4, 2015

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Until two years ago, I lived in Beijing and belonged to a loosely organized group of legal professionals known among ordinary Chinese as weiquan lushi, or rights defense lawyers. The government called us “a criminal gang” that disturbed social order because we openly challenged the way the Communist Party controlled China’s legal system. Most of the people we helped were seen by officials as troublemakers: petitioners whose houses had been forcibly demolished, political dissidents, members of Christian house churches, Falun Gong practitioners, and migrant workers bullied by their urban employers.

In 2013, I came to the United States as Continue reading

Xiao Guozhen:Li Huaping-A Child of Freedom

published: July 28, 2014

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LI HUAPING (李化平),

Before Li Huaping (李化平) became known by his real name, he was known among Chinese netizens Continue reading

Xiao Guozhen: Meet Guo Feixiong

By Xiao Guozhen, published: July 23, 2014

This is China Change’s second profile of Guo Feixiong. Read the one by Xiao Shu.

 

On August 8, 2013, Guangzhou-based rights activist Guo Feixiong (郭飞雄, a.k.a. Yang Maodong) disappeared. Ten days later following a sustained uproar on social media, his sister finally confirmed his criminal detention upon receiving a notice of such from the Chinese police for allegedly “assembling a crowd Continue reading