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709 Crackdown

A Tribute to the Women Who Resist: On the Sixth Anniversary of the 709 Crackdown
Some of these women are lawyers and legal advocates who have chosen the difficult path of rights defense on their own. Others are family members of lawyers and legal advocates targeted by the authorities—who have been compelled to take up rights defense in order to protect their own freedom and...
July 8, 2021
HRIC Bulletin
Li Qiaochu
Fifth Anniversary of 709 Crackdown: Updated Chart of Persecution of Lawyers and Legal and Rights Advocates
Many were charged with and convicted of “subversion of state power” and “inciting subversion of state power.” HRIC’s updated 709 case chart highlights the ongoing impunity of the Chinese authorities in violating the rights of rights defense professionals and activists, the right of an individual to...
July 9, 2020
Press Release
Xi Jinping’s “Four Breakthroughs”
In his article, lawyer Chen Jiangang discusses what he terms as the “Four Breakthroughs” that President Xi Jinping has “achieved” during his administration: 1. Breaking with the principle of abiding by international treaty obligation, (referring to the the 1984 Joint Declaration that the Chinese...
June 14, 2020
Citizens' Square
Chen Jiangang
Fate of Lawyer Jiang Tianyong and Family Again Exposes True Face of China’s Totalitarian Regime
Under intense international anticipation of the release today from prison of prominent rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong ( 江天勇) , who was convicted of the trumped up charge of “inciting subversion of state power,” the Chinese authorities have instead disappeared him. His supporters outside the Henan...
February 28, 2019
Statement
Jiang Tianyong
Update on Wang Quanzhang—No “Hard Violence”
Wang Quanzhang, a rights lawyer, finally met with a lawyer after having been disappeared for more than three years. The lawyer, Liu Weiguo, reported that that Wang told him that he has suffered “no hard violence.” In the article below, Wang’s wife Li Wenzu reminds us what “no hard violence” means...
July 20, 2018
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Regarding Lawyer Wang Quanzhang’s Case of Alleged “Subversion of State Power”
Lawyer Wang Quanzhang was disappeared in July 2015, in the beginning stage of the 709 crackdown in which more than 300 lawyers and activists were affected—disappeared, detained, or questioned. Subsequently, all of the detainees were either prosecuted and sentenced or released—except lawyer Wang...
July 18, 2018
Citizens' Square
Wang Quanzhang
International Community Must Stand in Solidarity with Chinese Human Rights Lawyers
Three years have passed since the 709 Crackdown, but the Chinese authorities’ repression of human rights lawyers in China continues. The 709 Crackdown not only marked the beginning of a downturn of China’s political environment, but also has far-reaching negative implications for China’s judicial...
July 6, 2018
Statement
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