Growing Calls for China to Release Rights Lawyer from Compulsory Quarantine

Joyce Huang | Voice of America One day after his release from prison, Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang told friends that he is being watched by state agents — fueling calls at home and abroad for China to stop using the pandemic as an excuse to extend his incarceration.    The European Union said, in a press […]

Chinese Rights Lawyer, Wife Made Homeless After Police Pressure Landlord

Qu Yige and Wong Lok-to | Radio Free Asia A prominent rights lawyer detained during a nationwide crackdown on his profession by the ruling Chinese Communist Party has been made homeless along with his family after police forced them to leave their rented accommodation in a suburb of Beijing. Xie Yanyi was released from criminal detention on […]

Wife of Jailed Chinese Rights Lawyer ‘Stunned’ by Video of Jailed Husband

Lu Xi and Jia Ao | Radio Free Asia The wife of jailed human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has set out on another campaign to find her husband, starting on a Chinese lovers’festival, only to be shown video footage of Wang which she described as “very worrying.” Li Wenzu met with authorities at the Linyi Prison in […]

Top Chinese Rights Lawyer Resigns From Ruling Party in Protest

Top Chinese Rights Lawyer Resigns From Ruling Party in Protest

Yang Fan and Gao Feng  |  Radio Free Asia Three years after the ruling Chinese Communist Party launched a nationwide operation targeting human rights lawyers, a top former rights lawyer has handed in his resignation as a party member in protest. Wen Donghai announced his withdrawal from the ruling party on Tuesday after being told […]

China Sentences Rights Lawyer to 2 Years in Prison

Joyce Huang  |  Voice of America A court in China’s southern Hunan province has sentenced prominent rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong to two years in prison on the charge of inciting state subversion. Jiang is the twelfth lawyer to be sentenced since China began a sweeping crackdown more than two years ago that has seen more than […]

Chinese Police Warn Father of Jailed Rights Lawyer After Family’s Angry Statement

Yang Fan and Ding Wenqi  |  Radio Free Asia The father of jailed Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong has been called in and issued a warning by the country’s state security police after the family issued a statement slamming the government’s forced “appointment” of defense lawyers in the case. “The state security police took […]

Son of Chinese Rights Lawyer Denied Access to Primary School After Torture Report

Ding Wenqi, Wong Lok-to and Goh Fung  |  Radio Free Asia Authorities in the Chinese capital have placed restrictions on the young son of a prominent human rights lawyer, preventing him from enrolling in primary school, his parents said on Wednesday. Chen Jiangang, who helped to expose the torture of his client and fellow lawyer […]

Chinese Rights Lawyer Finally Returns Home, ‘Thin And Gray’

Yang Fan, Ng Yik-tung and Sing Man  |  Radio Free Asia A Chinese rights lawyer detained in a nationwide crackdown in July 2015 has finally been allowed to return home following his release from jail after he was found guilty of subversion charges, his wife told RFA. Li Heping was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, […]

Chinese Rights Lawyer ‘Released’ After Guilty Plea During Subversion Trial

Ding Wenqi  |  Radio Free Asia Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hunan on Monday released rights lawyer Xie Yang on “bail” after he pleaded guilty at his subversion trial and backtracked on previous reports of his torture while in police detention. Xie, 45, stood trial at the Changsha Intermediate People’s Court on Monday, […]