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Account of Applying to Attend Trial of Qin Yongmin
This account describes the experience of the writer and other rights defenders from different areas in the country who intended to going to Wuhan to apply to attend the trial of Qin Yongmin. Some activists were intercepted in their local areas, and the others who arrived at the court were...
July 11, 2018
Citizens' Square
Qin Yongmin
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
Update on Meeting with Zhang Guanghong
In the afternoon of December 7, 2017, lawyer Sui Muqing met with well-known netizen Zhang Guanghong (web name Nianhua Shiping) at Yuexiu District Detention Center in Guangzhou. Zhang, who was arrested for the crime of “insulting,” told the lawyer that Yuexiu police accused him of reposting a...
December 7, 2017
Citizens' Square
Chinese Lawyers’ Statement on Respecting and Protecting Lawyers’ Right to Practice
The Chinese authorities have persecuted human rights lawyers and human rights defenders who were taken into custody in the 709 Crackdown by putting them under “residential surveillance at a designated place,” which is secret detention in disguise, refusing to let lawyers retained by their families...
February 1, 2018
Citizens' Square
Liu Shihui
Development on the “Steamed Bun” Case in Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province: Defense Lawyer Zhu Shengwu Fears His License Will Be Revoked
On September 6, lawyer Zhu Shengwu, representing “steamed bun” case defendant Wang Jiangfeng of Zhaoyuan, Shandong, received a notice from the Department of Justice of Shandong Province entitled, “Notice of Rights to a Hearing for the Party Involved in Administrative Punishment Cases Handled by the...
September 11, 2017
Citizens' Square
Urging the 19th Party Congress to Oust Xi Jinping and Fully Implement Structural Political Reform
Since the 18th Party Congress in 2012, human rights have deteriorated, the rule of law has regressed, torture has increased, and the number of wrongful incarcerations has grown dramatically—Beijing rights defender Yu Wensheng states in an open letter. Yu says that since Xi Jinping came to power...
October 18, 2017
Citizens' Square
Yu Wensheng
Lawyers Associations Should Assume the Responsibility of Defending the Rights of Lawyers Wang Quanzhang and Li Yuhan
In the 900 days Lawyer Wang Quanzhang, from Tianjin, has been in custody—since he was first detained in July 2015 in the 709 Crackdown—he has yet to be allowed to meet with a lawyer; and lawyer Li Yuhan, of Shenyang, who once represented Wang Quanzhang, was arrested in November 2017 on suspicion of...
January 4, 2018
Citizens' Square
Wang Quanzhang
Unusual “Steamed Bun Case” Retried in Zhaoyuan, Shandong; Court Assigns Released Social Prisoner to Bring Defendant to Court
Zhaoyuan, Shandong netizen Wang Jiangfeng, who was sentenced to two years for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles” after publishing comments on the Internet calling Mao Zedong “Bandit Mao,” Xi Jinping “Steamed Bun Xi,” and so on, received a “Written Decision for Retrial” on the effective date...
July 24, 2017
Citizens' Square
Wang Jiangfeng
Continuing the Party’s Absolute Leadership Over the Army is Paradoxical—An Octogenarian Once Again Sends an Open Letter to Xi Jinping
On the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Wang Xiuying, a woman in her 80s from Beijing, published an open letter to Xi Jinping arguing that “continuing the Party’s absolute leadership over the army is paradoxical.” The open letter states that the army’s...
July 23, 2017
Citizens' Square
Hong Kong Three Years On: A Spirit Undaunted
September 28, 2017: The Umbrella Movement, Three Years On Civic groups in Hong Kong commemorate the third anniversary of the Umbrella Movement, which called for universal suffrage and an end to political interference from mainland China. The tens of thousands of protestors who participated in the...
October 2, 2017

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