Safeguarding the Right to Practice: A Statement by 58 Chinese Lawyers

China Change This article was first published on China Change website on February 19, 2018 On July 9, 2015, in the mass arrest of Chinese human rights lawyers and defenders known as the “709 Crackdown,” the security authorities used “residential surveillance at a designated place”, a disguised form of secret detention, to detain lawyers. They […]

Human Rights Lawyers Shine in China, But Need the World to Notice

Stephen Gregory  |  Epoch Times Rep. Chris Smith seeks to marshal U.S. support for rights defenders WASHINGTON—Four Chinese women sat at a long oaken table in a hearing room on Capitol Hill on the afternoon of May 19 and asked the world to pay attention. Their husbands have been detained in China because of their […]

Xi, Trump Emerge Upbeat after Get-Acquainted Talks in Florida

Wong Lok-to  |  Radio Free Asia U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he and visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping had made progress in their first meetings, telling reporters: “I believe lots of very potentially bad problems will be going away.” Trump’s comments after two days of meetings with Xi at Trump’s Spanish-style Mar-a-Lago […]

China: Assault on Human Rights Lawyers and Activists Escalates with Convictions After Sham Trials

Amnesty International The Chinese authorities must end their relentless suppression of human rights lawyers and activists, Amnesty International said after a prominent lawyer became the latest to be convicted after an unfair trial. Roseann Rife, East Asia Research Director at Amnesty International said: “this wave of trials against lawyers and activists are a political charade. […]

5400 Mainland China Lawyers Quit the CCP

<![CDATA[ Four lawyers arrested in China’s unprecedented crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists (Hong Kong free press) Between September 22nd 2014 through August 15th 2015, Ms. Liao Yanmei and her team of Tuidang volunteers called over 900,000 telephone numbers to reach Lawyers in Mainland China. The calls were made in an aspiring effort to […]

HK legal heavyweights urge China to ‘uphold rule of law’ as justice dept refuses to sign petition

<!–[CDATA[Ellie Ng  |  Hong Kong Free Press Several of Hong Kong’s top lawyers have launched a global petition in protest of China’s unprecedented crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists. The petition, signed by 46 legal heavyweights from the Hong Kong Bar Association and chief executive election committee, denounces China’s “intimidating harassment” of more than 200 individuals in a nationwide crackdown […]

Chinese Officials, Arbiters of Repression, Now Seek Aid From the Lawyers Who Defended Their Victims

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Chinese Lawyers Outraged as Colleague Is Dragged From Court

By Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times Over 200 lawyers in China have signed an open letter of protest against the authorities after a court in Jilin, a northern province of China, had the lawyer Zhang Keke physically removed from the court by police, when he attempted to mount a legal defense for his client, a practitioner […]

Lawyers Detained in China for Attempting to Free Falun Gong Practitioners

The Chinese authorities are detaining four prominent rights lawyers for attempting to free Falun Gong practitioners held in a brainwashing center.
Responding to the kidnapping of the lawyers, over 100 rights lawyers and concerned citizens released on the internet a statement condemning their confinement,