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Female Lawyer Sun Shihua Handling Petitioner’s Case is Beaten and Illegally Detained by Police
In a September 20 post online, lawyer Sui Muqing says that his wife, lawyer Sun Shihua, was beaten and illegally detained by the police at Hualin police substation, Liwan District in Guangzhou. She had gone to the substation at about 3 PM to speak with the police officer in charge of her client’s...
September 20, 2018
Citizens' Square
Sui Muqing
Update on Wang Quanzhang—No “Hard Violence”
Wang Quanzhang, a rights lawyer, finally met with a lawyer after having been disappeared for more than three years. The lawyer, Liu Weiguo, reported that that Wang told him that he has suffered “no hard violence.” In the article below, Wang’s wife Li Wenzu reminds us what “no hard violence” means...
July 20, 2018
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters
Students from 12 Other Colleges Issue Letters of Support for Shenzhen Jasic Workers
Students from 12 colleges across the country have joined the campaign initiated by the students of Peking University to call for the release of Jasic workers detained for demanding to form a labor union. On July 27, seven of the workers, and 23 supporters were taken into custody and have been...
August 2, 2018
Citizens' Square
Regarding Lawyer Wang Quanzhang’s Case of Alleged “Subversion of State Power”
Lawyer Wang Quanzhang was disappeared in July 2015, in the beginning stage of the 709 crackdown in which more than 300 lawyers and activists were affected—disappeared, detained, or questioned. Subsequently, all of the detainees were either prosecuted and sentenced or released—except lawyer Wang...
July 18, 2018
Citizens' Square
Wang Quanzhang
Open Letter from Scholars Inside and Outside China in Support of Shenzhen Workers Demanding to Form Labor Union
More than 100 scholars inside and outside China have joined a growing domestic campaign to call for the release of workers at the Jasic factory in Shenzhen, who have been detained for demanding to form their own labor union to protect their rights. On July 27, seven of the workers, and 23...
August 1, 2018
Citizens' Square
30 Shenzhen Workers and Supporters Detained for Demanding to Form Labor Union
In this account, the writers, who are workers at Jasic Technology Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen, describe the seizure of fellow workers and their relatives. On the afternoon of July 27, when seven workers who are among the workers demanding to form a labor union came to the factory to work as usual, they...
July 30, 2018
Citizens' Square
Peking University Student Group Reports Widening Support for Detained Jasic Workers
In this update, the students and recent graduates of Peking University who initiated the public statement on July 29 to support the detained Jasic workers in Shenzhen report that their statement has garnered more than 1,600 signatures in just one day—despite the statement having been deleted from...
July 31, 2018
Citizens' Square
Letter of Support for Shenzhen Jasic Workers Arrested for Demanding to Form Labor Union
On July 27, 30 of workers and their supporters at Jasic Technology Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen, who were demanding to form a labor union, were detained by the police. On July 29, Yue Xin ( 岳昕 ), a recent graduate of Peking University’s School of Foreign Languages, initiated a signature campaign for a...
July 29, 2018
Citizens' Square
Shenzhen Workers Demanding to Form Labor Union Achieved an Initial Victory
In this account, the authors, workers at Jasic Technology Co., Ltd. In Shenzhen state that the company has treated employees badly for a long time, and that, as a result, workers demand to establish a labor union as a way to protect their rights and to protest the maltreatment. But, according to...
July 22, 2018
Citizens' Square
709 Family Members Accompany Lawyer to Tianjin Detention Center, Denied Opportunity to See Wang Quanzhang; Judge Also Refuses Them—Li Wenzu’s epic search for her husband is violently stopped on the 12th day
On April 19, 2018, Wang Quanzhang’s wife, Li Wenzu, and family members of 709 lawyers Wang Qiaoling, Liu Ermin, Yuan Shanshan, accompanied lawyers Lin Qilei and Xie Yang to the Tianjin Detention Center to ask to see Wang Quanzhang, but their request was denied. The following day, Li Wenzu, Wang...
April 20, 2018
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters

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