Television screen shot of Chinese lawyer Zhou Shifeng being escorted by police officers to Tianjin No.2 Intermediate People’s Court in Tianjin, Aug. 4, 2016.
A court in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin sentenced a leading human rights lawyer to seven years in prison on Thursday, the third subversion trial this week of attorneys and activists who were rounded up in a sweeping crackdown on rights defenders a year ago. Continue reading
China Jails Human Rights Lawyer for 7 Years on Subversion Charges已关闭评论
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Zhou Shifeng is one of several Chinese lawyers who disappeared last year
China has formally arrested and charged at least seven human rights lawyers and associates with “subversion”, friends and relatives say. Continue reading
China charges human rights lawyers with ‘subversion’已关闭评论
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2015-07-14
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
China’s Crackdown on Rights Lawyers Shows No Sign of Abating已关闭评论
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By CHRIS BUCKLEY 
JULY 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
Chinese Authorities Appear to Detain 4 Human Rights Lawyers已关闭评论
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Tagged Human Rights Lawyer, Wang Yu, Wu Gan, Zhou Shifeng
