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 […]

Confined Shanghai Lawyer Enjoys Unusually Relaxed Christmas

Rona Rui and Larry Ong  |  Epoch Times For the past decade, Shanghai-based human rights lawyer Zheng Enchong had to notify the police three days in advance if he wanted to visit his elder brother in the city. If Zheng was permitted to leave home, he would be closely shadowed by a group of security agents. In […]

China Confirms It Took Lawyer Jiang Tianyong Into Custody

Larry Ong  |  Epoch Times A new video mocks the rights lawyer who vanished last month and taunts his supporters; his family has also recently been harassed by police Jiang Tianyong, a well-known Chinese human rights lawyer, has sought to hold the Chinese communist regime accountable for its own laws since 2005. For taking on the […]

Missing Rights Lawyer Criminally Charged

ChinaAid Changsha, Hunan –  A state-run newspaper published a slanderous article concerning a missing human rights lawyer today, announcing that the government planned to apply criminal measures to him under allegations that he possessed and leaked state secrets. Jiang Tianyong, a lawyer whose license was revoked in 2007 because he continually defended victims of human […]

China Charges Lawyer Treason After Recent Disappearance

Voice of America China is showing no sign of easing its crackdown on the nation’s rights defenders. Earlier this week, rights lawyer Li Heping was officially indicted, and the whereabouts of three other rights activists, including public interest lawyer Jiang Tianyong, are unknown more than two weeks after they disappeared. Li’s wife, Wang Qianling, learned […]

Chinese Lawyer Jiang Tianyong’s Last Major Interview Before His Disappearance

Li Hui  |  Epoch Times Jiang appears to have vanished after a work trip to Changsha, and has been uncontactable since Nov. 21. Very recently, Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong went incommunicado after a work trip to south central China. Jiang was in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, to look into the detention […]

Hong Kong Lawyers March Against Beijing ‘Meddling’

VISION TIMES Approximately 3,000 legal professionals participated in a silent march on November 8 in Hong Kong. The protest was in response to Beijing’s most recent intervention into the special administrative region that effectively barred two elected Hong Kong pro-independence politicians from taking office, claiming this harms judicial independence. The dispute flared after the two newly […]

Preparing for Fair Trial in China—an Interview With Human Rights Lawyer Tang Jitian

Zheng Yan  | Epoch Times For years, Beijing-based human rights lawyer Tang Jitian defended casualties of the Chinese Communist Party’s repression—victims of forced land acquisition and building demolition, practitioners of Falun Gong, and other Chinese petitioners. In time, the Party came for Tang, a native of Dunhua in the northeastern province of Jilin. His law license […]

“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.