International Community Urges China to Uphold Rule of Law

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Professional Associations

• 29 Senior lawyers, judges, and jurists from many countries, "China must respect lawyers’ human rights," January 23, 2017
• Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, “One year on, the CCBE denounces once again the crackdown on Chinese lawyers,” July 11, 2016
• Law Council of Australia, “Law Council of Australia urges DFAT to redouble efforts with Chinese Government to release detained lawyers,” July 11, 2016
• Taipei Bar Association, “Statement on Anniversary of Chinese Government’s Large-Scale Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyers (台北律师公会针对中国政府大规模逮捕维权律师周年之声明),” July 9, 2016
• American Bar Association, "Chinese lawyer Wang Yu to Receive Inaugural ABA International Human Rights Award," July 9, 2016
• Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Group, “China’s Shattered Dream for the Rule of Law, One Year On,” July 8, 2016
• International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, “Open letter to His Excellency Mr Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China,” July 8, 2016

Governments

• European Union External Action, Statement by the Spokesperson on the cases of several human rights defenders in China, January 28, 2017 
• France and Germany award Wang Qiaoling, wife of human rights lawyer Li Heping, the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law, December 1, 2016. 
• U.S. Department of State, Office of Press Relations, "Sentencing of Lawyers and Rights Activists in China," August 8, 2016
• European Union External Action, "Statement by the Spokesperson on the conviction of Chinese lawyers and other human rights defenders on charges of state subversion," August 5, 2016
• Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in China, "Statement on the First Anniversary of the 709-Crackdown," July 9, 2016
• U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, "Anniversary of Crackdown on Lawyers and Rights Defenders in China," July 9, 2016
• Congressional-Executive Commission on China, “CECC Marks One-Year Anniversary of Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyers & Recent UN Group Opinion Regarding Detained American,” July 9, 2016
• European Union, "EU Concerns about the Human Rights situation in China," May 24, 2016
• EU Joint Statement at 31st Session of Human Rights Council, "Human Rights Situation that Require the Council's Attention," March 15, 2016
• 12-Country Joint Statement at 31st Session of the Human Rights Council, “Joint Statement – Human Rights Situation in China,” 10 March 2016

NGOs

• China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group and Taiwan Support China Human Rights Lawyers Network with co-signatories, “End Suppression of China Human Rights Lawyers: A global joint statement on the 3rd Anniversary of 709 Crackdown and China Human Rights Lawyers’ Day,” July 2018
• China Human Rights Lawyers Group, “Statement on the 3rd Anniversary of the 709 Crackdown: The Virtue of Pines and Cypress Is To Be Known Only In Wintry Cold,” July 9, 2018
• China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group and Taiwan Support China Human Rights Lawyers Network, with co-signatories, "Call on the Chinese Government to repeal the Convictions against Hu Shigen, Zhou Shifeng, Zhai Yuanmin and Gou Hongguo: A Statement by the Hong Kong and Taiwan NGOs," August 6, 2016
• China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, with 18 Bar Associations and Lawyers Organisations, 9 Law Academics, 29 Legal Practitioners, and 5 Law Students, "An Open Letter by Legal Professionals to President Xi Jinping On the Occasion of the anniversary of the 709 Crackdown," July 9, 2016
• Amnesty International, “China: End relentless repression against human rights lawyers on first anniversary of crackdown,” July 7, 2016