‘I Really Felt That He Was Sacrificing His Life’
Zhang Min | Radio Free Asia Dissident rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, 54, disappeared just over a year ago from a remote cave dwelling in the northern province of Shaanxi, where he was being held under house arrest. Gao, who had yet to regain his freedom following his release from prison in August 2014, is believed […]
Another Human Rights Lawyer Targeted in Continuous Crackdown
China Change This article was first published in ChinaChange website on November 6, 2017 Wen Donghai (文东海) is a 43-year-old lawyer in Changsha, Hunan Province. He grew up in a mountainous village and became a policeman in the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau. Bored and unfulfilled, he quit his job, went to graduate school and […]
Confined Shanghai Lawyer Suffers Abuse After Exposing ‘Shanghai Gang’
Larry Ong | Epoch Times Zheng Enchong, a Shanghai-based human rights lawyer, has been under house arrest for over a decade. Local security forces have frequently harassed and abused him during his confinement. But early last year, Zheng, 67, found the restrictions gradually relaxed after he revealed sensitive information about various top members of a […]
Christian Human Rights Lawyer Pinned with Subversion Charges
ChinaAid Changsha, Hunan— Authorities in China’s southern Hunan province arrested a passionate defender of human rights and religious freedom on falsified charges of attempting to overthrow the state, his father learned today. The father of imprisoned Christian human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong received a statement from a sub-bureau of the Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau […]
Confined Shanghai Lawyer Unmasks Elite Backers of Disgraced Shanghai Prosecutor
Larry Ong, Shi Xuanzhi and Yi Ru | Epoch Times Chen Xu‘s downfall means that his former political patrons Liu Yungeng and Wu Zhiming are headed for trouble, says human rights lawyer Zheng Enchong Shanghai Political and Legal Affairs Commission (PLAC) officials belonging to the cohort of ex-Shanghai chief prosecutor Chen Xu are “all rotten,” […]
In Today’s China, Anyone Could Be the Next Victim: An Interview with Chinese Lawyer Yu Wensheng
Zheng Yan | Epoch Times Staff Yu Wensheng, one of the few active human rights lawyers in China not to have been swept up in the spate of arrests in July 2015, recently gave an interview to the Chinese edition of Epoch Times. Following is the second part. Part one was published last month. *** […]
Rights Lawyer Complains to Mayor Over ‘Cultural Revolution’ Treatment of Colleagues
Ng Yik-tung, Sing Man and Lam Kwok-lap | Radio Free Asia A prominent Chinese lawyer has made a complaint to Beijing’s mayoral hotline about a nationwide police operation targeting the country’s human rights lawyers beginning on July 9, 2015, likening it to the political violence of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Liu Xiaoyuan, a partner at […]
Human Rights Lawyer Reveals Torture; Says any Future Confession Would ‘Not be Out of My Own Will’
China Aid Changsha, Hunan— An incarcerated human rights lawyer from China’s central Hunan province declared his innocence and revealed that he is being subjected to severe torture in a letter on Jan. 13, China Aid learned about it. Imprisoned since July 11, 2015, for his defense of human rights, lawyer Xie Yang wrote that officials […]
Chinese Lawyer’s Family Longs for His Return
Vision Times Xia Chongyu’s father, Xia Lin, is a famous human rights lawyer who has represented many important figures, including Ai Weiwei, Pu Zhiqiang, and Guo Yushan. Twenty-year-old Xia Chongyu has very clear memories of Nov. 8, 2014. It was the last day he saw his father, and it was also the day that the […]
Confined Shanghai Lawyer Gets Early Tip-Off on Mayor’s Sudden Resignation
Larry Ong and Rona Rui | Epoch Times News that former Shanghai mayor Yang Xiong resigned from his post was formally announced on Jan. 17. But Zheng Enchong, a Chinese human rights lawyer who has long been under house arrest for offending the political clique in Shanghai loyal to former Communist Party head Jiang Zemin, learned […]