Detained legal assistant Zhao Wei, shown in an undated photo from the rights website Weiquanwang. Weiquanwang
Amid unconfirmed reports that she has been sexually abused in detention, authorities are preventing a defense attorney from seeing a legal assistant jailed during last year’s nationwide police operation targeting human rights lawyers, RFA has learned. Continue reading
Lawyers Hit Out At Chinese Police Amid Rumors of Detainee Abuse已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, honorary Members, Subversion
Tagged abuse, Inciting Subversion, Zhao Wei
(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
Posted in Headlines, honorary Members, Human Rights Lawyer, Subversion
Tagged arrest, Hu Shigen, lawyers, Liu Sixin, Subversion, Wang Quanzhang, Wang Yu, Xie Yanyi, Zhao Wei
