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To China's Human Rights Lawyers: The Elite of the Elite, Conscience of Lawyers
If it was said that previously I did my utmost to avoid the circle of human rights lawyers, it would be because of lawyer Li Heping. I really couldn’t stand the police watching the front door of my own home every day; I couldn’t stand my husband being thrown into various police substations when he...
December 10, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Wang Yu and Bao Longjun in my eyes
I met the beautiful and poised Wang Yu and the simple and honest Bao Longjun in June 2013. I hired lawyers Wang and Bao after receiving a call from Suzhou Huqiu People’s Court concerning the suit against Suzhou Jianxin Construction Group’s project manager, Ding Jianxin, who had destroyed Ge Jueping...
December 6, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Lawyer Yu Wensheng Files Complaint About Police Torture
In his complaint to the Daxing District People’s Court, Beijing, Lawyer Yu Wensheng recounts his torture by two police officers during his 99-day detention. One of his torturers said to him: “I won’t let you die, but I will make you feel you’d rather be dead.” Yu was taken into custody on October...
November 22, 2015
Citizens' Square
Winter has come, is spring far behind?
In the Four Months Since My Uncle Went Missing Winter has arrived, it’s much colder now. November 10: it will have been four months since my uncle was forcibly disappeared. During this time, his lawyer went to Tianjin three times to apply to meet him but the public security departments twice made...
November 9, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
"To Advance Rule of Law, and Never Again Be Violated by the Powerful—Please Support Human Rights Lawyers!"
He Fengzhu from Wuxi, six months pregnant, set off firecrackers at Tiananmen Square. She was later taken away by authorities from the Binhu District branch of the Wuxi Municipal Public Security Bureau, and finally released on bail. In the account below, which consists of information she provided...
October 27, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Responses of the People’s Republic of China to the Committee against Torture’s List of Issues (LOI) October 2015

October 2015

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Authorities Widen Crackdown on Lawyers to Include Their Children
Liu Xiaoyuan (刘晓原) , a lawyer with the Fengrui Law Firm—which is a chief target of the large-scale government crackdown on rights defense lawyers since July of this year—discloses that public security authorities have refused to process his son’s application for a passport to go abroad for graduate...
October 16, 2015
HRIC Bulletin
China, what have we done actually?
China, what have we done actually? I don’t know lawyer Wang Yu’s son Bao Zhuoxuan personally, but my son has met him once. They went swimming together. When I heard from a lawyer friend on October 8 that Zhouxuan was taken away by police in Myanmar, I couldn't believe it. I tried to comfort this...
October 13, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Tang Jingling Meets with Lawyer, His Situation Is Worrisome
[Translation by Human Rights in China] [Disseminated via WeChat] On September 1, 2015, lawyer Ge Yongxi went to Guangzhou No. 1 Detention Center to meet with Tang Jingling, and read the Bible for him. Tang had long wanted a Bible to read, but has been denied by the detention authorities to have one...
September 9, 2015
Citizens' Square
Tang Jingling
Lawyer Li Heping's wife: You have to have a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!—To the families of the "709 Incident"
A stranger called me yesterday and asked how my Mid-Autumn Festival was. She repeatedly said that she once received help from lawyer Li Heping, and asked what she could do for us. At last she said, although Li Heping wasn't home, she still wanted to wish us a happy Mid-Autumn Festival. I was very...
September 27, 2015
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters

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