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Cheng Hai Requests a Hearing after Being Notified that His License to Practice Will Be Administratively Suspended
On August 22, 2014, lawyer Cheng Hai received a notice from the Changping District Bureau of Justice in Beijing informing him that the bureau planned to administratively suspend his license to practice for one year. The reason given for the suspension was that Cheng had “disrupted court order...
August 23, 2014
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Cheng Hai
Photos: Protestors Call for Release of “Ten Gentlemen of Zhengzhou”
We—more than three dozen rights defenders—protested in front of Zhengzhou No. 3 Detention Center, to support the “Ten Gentlemen of Zhengzhou.” They were all detained and arrested on trumped up charges, such as “illegal business activity” and “picking quarrels and provoking troubles,” and many are...
August 15, 2014
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Second-Instance Verdict in the Case of Three Asset Transparency Advocates
On August 5, 2014 the Xinyu Intermediate People’s Court in Xinyu, Jiangxi Province, ruled against the appeals of Liu Ping ( 刘萍) , Wei Zhongping ( 魏忠平) , and Li Sihua ( 李思华) and upheld the first-instance verdicts. The three asset transparency advocates were convicted on June 18, 2014, for their...
August 5, 2014
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Liu Ping
Urgent Appeal Concerning Jiaozuo Police's Coercive Summons of a Lawyer
In this urgent appeal, lawyer Liu Jinbin ( 刘金滨 ) calls on the All China Lawyers' Association, prosecutorial organs, and other stakeholders to end the police's unlawful coercive summons of lawyer Chang Weiping in Jiaozuo, Henan. The couple, Xu Youchen ( 许有臣 ) and Zhang Xiaoyu ( 张小玉 ) , who are...
July 22, 2014
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Police at Zhongzhan Substation of Jiaozuo Public Security Bureau Unlawfully Restricted Lawyer Chang Weiping’s Personal Freedom and Violated His Right to Practice
In the morning of July 21, 2014, after lawyer Chang Weiping ( 常玮平 ) was denied a meeting at the Jiaozuo Detention Center with his clients Xu Youchen ( 许有臣 ) and Zhang Xiaoyu ( 张小玉 ) , who were being held on suspicion of intentional homicide, he went to the Zhongzhan police substantion—which is...
July 23, 2014
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Lü Gengsong’s lawyer denied access to client
On July 7, 2014, Lü Gengsong, member of the China Democracy Party’s Zhejiang Committee, was criminally detained on suspicion of “subversion of state power.” Ding Xikui, a lawyer with the Mo Shaoping Law Firm in Beijing, was retained by Lü’s family as defense counsel. On July 17, Ding traveled to...
July 18, 2014
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Chen Shuqing
Letter from the Lawyers of Zhang Xiaoyu and Xu Youchen to Henan Provincial, Municipal, and District Public Security Organs
The Henan case of Zhang Xiaoyu ( 张小玉) and Xu Youchen ( 许有臣) , suspected of intentional homicide, is under investigation. Their defense lawyer Chang Weiping ( 常玮平) applied to the Zhongzhan District Public Security Bureau of Jiaozuo, Henan, for a meeting with his clients but was denied. Moreover,...
July 24, 2014
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Appeal Argument for the Second-Instance Trial of Ding Jiaxi
In this appeal argument submitted to the Beijing Municipal No. 1 Intermediate People's Court for the second-instance trial of human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi ( 丁家喜) , lawyer Tang Tianhao ( 唐天昊) highlighted numerous procedural irregularities, rebutted the conclusions of the original guilty verdict,...
July 2, 2014
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Ding Jiaxi
Complaint and Appeal Argument for Ding Jiaxi's Second-Instance Trial
Ding Jiaxi's ( 丁家喜) second-instance trial lawyer Cheng Hai (程海) argues in this statement that under the Constitution, Ding has the right to demand officials to disclose their assets and call for educational equality. The statement was also submitted as a complaint against 125 judges, prosecutors,...
July 6, 2014
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Cheng Hai
Verdict in the case of Li Yufang
On July 4, 2014, Shanghai petitioner Li Yufang ( 李玉芳) was found guilty of “obstructing official business.” Li was tried at the Yangpu District People's Court in Shanghai on July 4, 2014, and received a sentence of one year. Li had petitioned for more than a decade for compensation for the forced...
July 4, 2014
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Li Yufang

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