An Update on Lawyer Li Chunfu’s Condition
Wang Qiaoling | China Change This article was first published in ChinaChange web site on January 14, 2017 Latest on January 14: Li Chunfu has been diagnosed today as having symptoms of schizophrenia and hospitalized. We learned from relatives that he was subjected to severe torture during his 6 months of “residential surveillance at a designated […]
Peter Dahlin, the Swedish NGO Worker Who ‘Endangered the National Security’ of China
China Change This article was first published in ChinaChange website on January 3, 2017 This Q & A can be read as a companion piece to the Guardian report. It focuses more on Dahlin’s work, the interrogations, and the legal features of his case. Given that China’s “Law on the Management of Foreign Non-Governmental Organizations” […]
“My Name is Li Heping, and I Love Being a Lawyer”
But Chen Guangcheng was really an amazing person. Despite his blindness, he scaled the wall in his courtyard, made his way to Shanghai by himself, and then came to Beijing. In Beijing he hid out in our home for quite a while. The Shandong authorities came to Beijing looking for him, and they figured that he’d have come to Beijing to stay with one of us. They found him hiding out in our compound, and abducted him back to Shandong.
Wife of Detained Lawyer Accuses Beijing Police of Harassment
Wang Qiaoling recently went to Tianjin, east of Beijing, to find out about the trial of her husband, Li Heping. He is one of several rights lawyers detained since July 2015. When she got home Tuesday, the owner of her building told her to move out.
To China’s Human Rights Lawyers: The Elite of the Elite, Conscience of Lawyers
Wang Qiaoling | Human Right in China If it was said that previously I did my utmost to avoid the circle of human rights lawyers, it would be because of lawyer Li Heping. I really couldn’t stand the police watching the front door of my own home every day; I couldn’t stand my husband being […]
Still Disappeared: Detention of Notable China Rights Lawyer Brings China’s Future into Question
Professor Terry Halliday | American Bar Foundation This article was published in China Aid website (Chicago) My friend, Li Heping was “disappeared” on July 10, 2015. Detained by China’s security apparatus, Li Heping, a practising Christian, has not been seen for 365 days by his wife or child, or his chosen lawyers, or diplomats rightly […]