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<\/a>\nTANG JINGLING (\u5510\u8346\u9675)
\nIn Guangzhou, renowned rights lawyer Tang Jingling (\u5510\u8346\u9675) was criminally detained on May 16, for \u201cprovoking disturbance,\u201d according to weiquanwang, a primary website reporting on China\u2019s rights defense events.<\/p>\n
His wife told weiquanwang that, around 10 o\u2019clock Friday evening, seven or eight police officers entered her home, displaying a search warrant and notice of criminal detention. The police searched the home for about two hours during which, lawyer Tang Jingling and his wife were told not to move and not to make or answer phone calls.<\/p>\n
The police took away Tang Jingling, his desktop computer, laptop, three cell phones, some books, and holiday cards from friends.<\/p>\n
Notice of criminal detention issued to Tang Jingling’s wife On Thursday, May 15, another human rights lawyer Liu Shihui (\u5218\u58eb\u8f89) was confirmed to have been criminally detained in Shanghai after going missing for two days. Shanghai police acknowledged to friends who had been searching for him that he is currently detained in the Pudong New District Detention Center but didn\u2019t reveal the allegations against Liu.<\/p>\n Also on Thursday, the police searched the home of another rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong (\u6c5f\u5929\u52c7), according to the minshengguancha website (\u6c11\u751f\u89c2\u5bdf). Around one in the afternoon, seven police officers, mostly in plainclothes, came to his home when only his mother was present. They looked in every room, including the kitchen and storage room, and after that they even searched storage caches in the staircase on each floor from the first to the fifth.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear what each of the three lawyers did to have triggered the searches and criminal detention. Tang Jingxing\u2019s recent tweets showed a postcard to the recently sentenced labor activist Wu Guijun (\u5434\u8d35\u519b), and reported incidents of protests in Hubei and Jiangxi.<\/p>\n \u201cProvoking disturbance\u201d is known in China as the \u201cpocket crime\u201d (\u53e3\u888b\u7f6a): it works like a pocket into which the government can put anything, arbitrarily and gratuitously.<\/p>\n According to China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, Tang Jingling \u201cwas attorney and defense counsel for the lawsuit against persecuted villagers in the Taishi Village recall incident in August 2005.\u201d Because of it, his lawyer\u2019s license has been suspended. However, he has remained active in the rights movement as a legal adviser in a wide range of cases across China.<\/p>\n Lawyer Liu Shihui and Jiang Tianyong have also been similarly disbarred for their work but have remained among the most active advocates of the rights movement. Jiang Tianyong was one of the four lawyers recently detained and then released in Jiansanjiang, Heilongjiang province (\u9ed1\u9f99\u6c5f\u5efa\u4e09\u6c5f) where they tried to seek the release of Falungong practitioners from a black jail known by the name \u201cLegal Education Center.\u201d<\/p>\n All three of them, Tang Jingling, Liu Shihui and Jiang Tianyong, was among the few hundred who was disappeared during the Jasmine crackdown in the early spring of 2011 and subjected to torture.<\/p>\n On Twitter, the Guangzhou-based rights lawyer Sui Muqing (@suimuqing88) reported that, Friday evening, Wang Qingying (\u738b\u6e05\u8425), a young professional working in corporate planning, was also criminally detained in connection with Tang Jingling. Yuan Xinting (\u8881\u65b0\u4ead), another associate of Tang Jingling cannot be reached by friends.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Sources:<\/p>\n http:\/\/wqw2010.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/blog-post_8769.html?spref=tw<\/p>\n http:\/\/wqw2010.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/blog-post_3644.html?spref=tw<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.canyu.org\/n88291c6.aspx<\/p>\n http:\/\/wqw2010.blogspot.com\/2014\/05\/blog-post_12.html<\/p>\n http:\/\/msguancha.com\/a\/lanmu4\/2014\/0515\/9958.html<\/p>\n From China Change<\/p>\n Two More Rights Lawyers Criminally Detained, Another\u2019s Home Searched<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nNOTICE OF CRIMINAL DETENTION ISSUED TO TANG JINGLING\u2019S WIFE
\nDuring the days leading up to Friday\u2019s detention, Tang Jingling had been summoned by the police several times. They asked him not to participate in any activities commemorating the Tian\u2019anmen Movement anniversary.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nLIU SHIHUI (\u5218\u58eb\u8f89)
\nJiang Tianyong told minshengguancha that it looked like the police came knowing what they wanted to look for and were determine to find it.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nJIANG TIANYONG (\u6c5f\u5929\u52c7)
\nTang Jingling is known for his tirelesspromotion of a non-violent civil disobedience movement. \u201cDisobedience is a direct contestation of values between dictatorship and freedom. It occurs in each person\u2019s mind and is externalized in one\u2019s actions,\u201d he wrote in a guide to the movement. \u201cThe road to China\u2019s freedom has to start with you, from each and every citizen who is willing to take up the responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nLEFT TO RIGHT: WANG QINGYING, TANG JINGLING AND YUAN XINTING IN 2009. THEIR SHIRTS READ: \u201cNON-ELECTED OFFICIALS DO NOT SERVE THE PEOPLE\u201d, \u201cPOWER SHOULD COME FROM BALLOTS.\u201d
\nIn recent weeks, China has detained several dozen politically active citizens as the 25th anniversary of the Tian\u2019anmen Movement approaches. Without any sign of \u201cdisturbances,\u201d the Chinese regime again hit the panic button again as they did in the spring of 2011, throwing the law out of the window. Well, it\u2019s always been a sham anyway and they don\u2019t pretend otherwise.<\/p>\n