{"id":2068,"date":"2014-07-09T15:33:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2014-07-09T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T15:33:32","slug":"lawyer-charged-after-trying-to-defend-june-4-commemorators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/lawyer-charged-after-trying-to-defend-june-4-commemorators","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Charged After Trying to Defend June 4 Commemorators"},"content":{"rendered":"

By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW JULY 7, 2014 4:23 AMJuly 7, 2014 11:45 pm<\/span><\/p>\n

A meeting on May 3 in Beijing to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement led to the detentions of several participants and criminal charges against a prominent lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, in events widely reported abroad and spoken of, quietly, in China.<\/p>\n

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The lawyer Chang Boyang, speaking to clients he represented in China\u2019s poisoned milk powder scandal, in Zhengzhou, September 2008.Credit Courtesy of Lu Jun<\/p>\n

But another commemorative meeting, earlier in the year on Feb. 2, perhaps less closely followed, also led to the detentions of about 10 people and formal charges, including against one person who did not even take part \u2014 the public interest lawyer Chang Boyang, according to fellow lawyers and Mr. Chang\u2019s nongovernmental organization, Zhengzhou Yirenping. Mr. Chang is a co-founder of the group, which works to prevent discrimination against people with hepatitis.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Mr. Chang\u2019s family was informed of his official arrest on July 3 on \u201csuspicion of illegal commercial activities\u201d \u2014 a switch in charges that baffled his lawyer, Liu Weiguo, according to a statement put out by Zhengzhou Yirenping.<\/p>\n

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