China Arrests Human Rights Lawyer Xie Yang, Charges Him With Subversion
Despite the repeated arrests and attempts on his life, Xie never stopped advocating for oppressed voices in China. His work also included defending Falun Gong practitioners, land grab victims and survivors of HIV.
More Virus Cases Reported in Northern China, Hubei Province
Nicole Hao | New Tang Dynasty Chinese authorities reported new CCP virus cases in northern China and the virus’s initial hot spot of Hubei Province over the weekend. Officially, China’s National Health Commission announced on May 10 that there were 12 new cases in the entire country. But local governments reported more infections than that. Days earlier, […]
China Has Invited 600 International Lawyers and Judicial Officials to its ‘Global Lawyers Forum,’ But These Chinese Lawyers Won’t Be Welcome
Lawyers are not permitted to express opinions different from those of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the Hong Kong issue;
Being a lawyer in China means that your livelihood depends on the Party, so you must obey the Party. The basic conditions for being a lawyer are to love the Party and socialism.
Chinese Netizens Detained for Derisive Comments About Military Parade
NICOLE HAO | EPOCH TIMES Two Chinese men have been detained for making online comments lamenting that the National Day military parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square wasn’t interesting to watch. The pageantry was particularly grandiose this year, as it was the 70th anniversary of the Chinese communist regime’s founding. Several other Chinese were detained after they complained online […]
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 […]
China’s Lawyer Crackdown Three Years on – ‘We Don’t Accept the Communist Party’s Attempt to Instill Terror’
On the morning of July 10, when I was interviewed by an overseas media outlet. They asked me: What do you think of Wang Yu’s whole family getting taken away? I frankly told them my opinion: I said that this is the beginning of the Chinese authorities’ purge of human rights lawyers. I said that a tempest would soon be
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 […]
Lawyer Xie Yang Will Be Tried On April 25, Wife Says in a Statement
China Change This article was published first in China Change web site on April 21, 2017 Since the publication in early January of the “Transcript of Interviews with Lawyer Xie Yang,” made by lawyer Chen Jiangang, detailing a series of meetings with Xie Yang at the Changsha 2nd Detention Center, the Xie Yang case has taken many bizarre […]
‘The Ball Is in Your Court!’ Questions for the Hunan Procuratorate Regarding Its ‘Independent Investigation’ into Xie Yang’s Torture
Chen Jiangang | China Change This article was first published in ChinaChange web site on March 22, 2017 The public didn’t know until yesterday that ambassadors from 11 countries wrote a letter to China’s Minister of Public Security on February 27, 2017, expressing their grave concern over recent reports of torture of human rights lawyers, […]
Lawyer Xie Yang – Admit Guilt, and Keep Your Mouth Shut
Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang | China Change This article appear first in ChinaChange web site on January 22, 2017 In a series of interviews, the still incarcerated human rights lawyer Xie Yang provided a detailed account of his arrest, interrogations, and the horrific abuses he suffered at the hands of police and prosecutors, to his two defense […]