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Beijing Court Upholds “Disrupting Public Order” Verdicts of Two Citizen Activists
Without holding hearings, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court ruled against the appeals by citizen activists Zhao Changqing ( 赵常青 ) and Zhang Baocheng ( 张宝成 ) and upheld their first-instance verdicts. They were both found guilty of “gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place” (...
June 27, 2014
Case Update
Zhao Changqing
Second-Instance Verdict in the Case of Zhang Baocheng
On June 27, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court ruled against the appeal of Zhang Baocheng and upheld the first-instance verdict. Zhang was convicted of “gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place” (聚众扰乱公共场所秩序) by the Beijing Municipal Haidian District Court on April 18, 2014,...
June 27, 2014
Citizens' Square
Zhang Baocheng
Four More New Citizens Movement Advocates Convicted, Sentenced to Between Two and Three-and-a-Half Years
Four citizen activists involved in public calls for high-ranking officials to reveal their assets in 2013 have each been found guilty of “gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place.” Two of them— Ding Jiaxi ( 丁家喜 ) and Zhao Changqing ( 赵常青 ) — were accused of planning street actions in...
April 18, 2014
Case Update
Ding Jiaxi
Draft Defense Statement for the Trial of Zhang Baocheng
This is the draft defense statement by one of Zhang Baocheng’s former lawyers, prepared for the original trial on January 27, 2014. In that trial, in protest of procedural problems, Zhang dismissed his lawyers and forced an adjournment of the trial. (The new trial took place on April 8, and Zhang...
April 16, 2014
Citizens' Square
Zhang Baocheng
The Light of Justice Shines Forever--A Smiling Zhang Baocheng: Defense Statement for the Trial of Zhang Baocheng
In his defense statement for Zhang Baocheng, lawyer Ge Yongxi argues that the procedural irregularities prove that the trial is nothing but reprisal against a human rights defender. He argues that the evidence, especially video of the peaceful assemblies for which Zhang was indicted, proves that...
April 12, 2014
Citizens' Square
Zhang Baocheng
Lawyers Dismissed or Withdrawn in Protest of Unfair Trials of Three Citizen Activists
Four participants of the New Citizens Movement— Ding Jiaxi ( 丁家喜) , Li Wei ( 李蔚 ), Zhang Baocheng ( 张宝成) , and Yuan Dong ( 袁冬) —were tried in two separate trials on Monday, January 27 at the Beijing Haidian District People’s Court. The proceedings marked the end of a series of trials of citizen...
January 31, 2014
HRIC Bulletin
Cheng Hai
Zhang Baocheng and Yuan Dong's Indictment
New Citizens Movement activists Zhang Baocheng and Yuan Dong were detained on April 4, 2013 and formally arrested on May 7, 2013 for unfurling banners and distributing leaflets calling for disclosure of officials’ assets. On December 11, 2013, the Beijing Haidian District People’s Court...
December 11, 2013
Citizens' Square
Zhang Baocheng
Xu Zhiyong’s Indictment
In the indictment, the authorities use publicly calling for “equal education” and “disclosure of officials’ assets” as their main justification for charging Xu Zhiyong with “gathering a crowd to disrupt order in a public place.” Translated by the people. Beijing Municipal People’s Procuratorate, No...
December 13, 2013
Citizens' Square
Zhang Baocheng
“Peaceful Calls for Public Disclosure of Official Assets Are Not a Crime: 10 Lawyers Argue for Revoking ‘Illegal Assembly’ Charges on Ding Jiaxi, Zhao Changqing, and Others”
This statement , in the form of a letter to the Beijing Public Security Bureau, is signed by 10 defense counsels representing Zhao Changqing, Ding Jiaxi, Yuan Dong, Ma Xinli, and Zhang Baocheng, who are criminally detained on “illegal assembly.” Another two activists, Sun Hanhui and Hou Xin, were...
April 26, 2013
Citizens' Square
Zhang Baocheng
Protestors Calling for Disclosure of Official Assets are Taken Away by Beijing Police (video & essay on Hou Xin)
In this article, Beijing lawyer Xiao Guozhen provides a portrait of rights advocate Hou Xin, one of four individuals detained by police in Beijing, following their March 31, 2013 protest calling for disclosure of official assets. The other three individuals detained were Yuan Dong, Zhang Baocheng,...
April 1, 2013
Citizens' Square
Zhang Baocheng
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