Skip to content Skip to navigation

Citizens' Square

Open Letter to Mr. Xi Jinping from Families of the 709 Crackdown
Dear General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the National Security Council Xi Jinping, Greetings! As the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is being convened, we are writing this letter in full respect, in hopes of...
October 24, 2016
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Family and Defender Urge Attention to Liu Jiacai’s Situation in Prison
Rights defender Liu Jiacai, currently serving his sentence in Hanjin Prison in Hubei Province, is frequently subjected to physical punishment and is taking psychotropic drugs to ease his mental pressure, according to fellow activist Li Wei. At the request of Liu’s wife, Li has constructed an...
August 26, 2016
Citizens' Square
Indictment against Qin Yongmin for "Subversion of State Power"
On June 17, 2016, the Wuhan Municipal Procuratorate indicted Wuhan activist Qin Yongmin of “subversion of state power.” Qin had previously been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the same crime. Prior to the indictment, Qin was formally arrested on May 12 after having been disappeared for one year...
June 17, 2016
Citizens' Square
Application to Observe Trial of Li Heping by Wang Qiaoling
The honorable Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court: Over the past few days, I’ve seen news about the trials of the “709” cases, and was really shocked. In the verdicts released on three consecutive days, I saw a name I had not seen for a long time, that of Li Heping, my husband. I’m filled...
August 4, 2016
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Feminist’s Weibo Account Closed, Female Administrator Brings Suit against Sina 3 Times But Court Refuses to File Case
In late March 2016, Zhang Leilei, administrator of the Sina Weibo feminist account, “Feminist Activist Pie is More Delicious” (女权行动派更好吃) found that the account had been shut down for “publishing harmful messages and engaging in other rule-violating behavior.” [The Chinese character for “faction”...
May 16, 2016
Citizens' Square
“Joint Statement from 709 Victims’ Families: Release Our Family Members, Refuse Attempts to Divide Us, Monitor the Trials, and Acquit the Detained Activists”
In this statements, eight family members of lawyers detained in the “709” crackdown express strong concern about Wang Yu being threatened and pressured into doing a video “interview ” in which she criticized her former colleague, Zhou Shifeng, as not being a “proper” lawyer. The statement also...
August 1, 2016
Citizens' Square
Wang Yu
Zhao Wei’s Husband: Zhao’s Defense Lawyer Arrested for “False Rumors”
You Minglei is the husband of Zhao Wei. The content of this message is from Weiquan Wang. Statement from You Minglei: I received news tonight that Mr. Ren Quanniu, the lawyer I appointed to represent Zhao Wei, was criminally detained on July 8 by public security authorities in Zhengzhou for “...
July 8, 2016
Citizens' Square
Wives of Lawyers Detained in “709 Crackdown” Taken Away for Carrying out “Bucket Show” Protest, Defense Lawyers Reprimanded by Police
Today, outside the entrance of the No. 2 branch of the Tianjin People’s Procuratorate, the wives of a number of lawyers who were arrested and disappeared in the “709 crackdown” nearly a year ago, used a “bucket show” to protest the authorities’ trampling on the law and express support for their...
June 6, 2016
Citizens' Square
6 People Detained, One Person Disappeared After Commemorating June Fourth
At the end of May 2016, seven rights defenders held a commemoration of June Fourth victims and to show support for Guo Feixiong and Yu Shiwen at citizen activist Zhang Baocheng’s home in Beijing. As a result, six of them, Zhao Changqing, Xu Caihong, Ma Xinli, Li Wei, Liang Taiping, and Zhang...
June 6, 2016
Citizens' Square
Joint Complaint by 82 Lawyers against Detention of Family Members of Lawyers in Custody since July 2015
Eighty-two lawyers from 18 provinces and municipalities jointly issued a public complaint about the detention of the wives of four individuals who have been in custody since the “709” crackdown on rights defense lawyers of July 2015, along with four lawyers who took a group photo with the wives...
June 8, 2016
Citizens' Square

Pages

Subscribe to Citizens' Square