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 […]
Lawyer Xia Lin Will be Sentenced and It Will Have Nothing to Do With the Law
Guo Yushan | China Change This article was first published on Chinachange.org on September 22, 2016 On September 22, after nearly two years in detention and a trial in August, lawyer Xia Lin, my friend, will finally face his sentence. Whatever he’s been charged with, it’s clear to everyone that it was only because he […]
China Finds Rights Lawyer Guilty, Says Will Be Released Soon
<!–[CDATA[Qiao Long and Yang Fan | Radio Free Asia A court in the Chinese capital on Tuesday handed down a guilty verdict and a suspended jail term to a prominent rights lawyer on charges of “incitement to ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination” and “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” after he fired off seven highly […]
China Indicts Top Rights Lawyer on Ethnic Hatred Charge
Authorities in Beijing on Friday indicted a prominent rights lawyer for “incitement to racial hatred” after holding him in detention for more than a year, paving the way for a trial, his lawyer said.