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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

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709 Families and Supporters

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

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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

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709 Families and Supporters

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

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709 Families and Supporters

Lawyers Request Meeting with Bao Longjun, Detention Center Says They Have "No Such Person"

Bao Longjun, husband of human rights lawyer Wang Yu, was taken away by Tianjin police from the airport on July 9, where he was sending off his son to study abroad in Australia. And he has not been heard from since. This is a description of lawyers Chen Yongfu and Huang Hanzhong’s attempt to meet...

August 24, 2015

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Beijing Xinqiao Law Firm: Solemn Statement on Zhang Kai and Liu Peng being Taken Away

[Translation by Human Rights in China] See Chinese original . Shocked by news that Xinqiao law firm lawyer Zhang Kai and assistant Liu Peng were taken away in the wee hours of the morning on August 25, 2015 in Wenzhou City, I, as the head of Zhang Kai’s law firm, issue the following statement:...

August 26, 2015

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Bao Longjun under Residential Surveillance on Suspicion of "Incitement" and "Picking Quarrels,” Family Yet to Be Notified

Forty-four days after Bao Longjun dropped out of contact while at the Beijing airport, his lawyers, after several inquiries, finally obtained the following information at the pre-trial division at the Hexi District Public Security Bureau in Tianjin: Bao has been put under residential surveillance “...

August 24, 2015

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Lawyer Wang Quanzhang Suspected of “Picking Quarrels” and “Inciting Subversion”

In these notes, lawyer Li Zhongwei recounts his efforts to meet with his client Lawyer Wang Quanzhang, who was disappeared on July 10. On August 10, Li went with Wang’s wife to the Hexi District Detention Center for the third time to look for him. After repeated requests, they were finally told...

August 10, 2015

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Chen Taihe: Please treat the detained lawyers well, for the sake of the society's peace and stability

“Alone a stranger in a strange land, I miss my family especially ever more at times of festivity.” In Chinese tradition, the Mid-Autumn Festival is second only to Spring Festival as the most important time for joyous gatherings of the whole family. Every Chinese is bound to feel the blessings of...

August 27, 2015

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709 Families and Supporters

Citizen Activist Liu Yuandong Hasn’t Been Let outside since First Detained in March 2013

Liu Yuangdong was among the first activists of the Southern Street Movement to be detained. He was tried in January 2014 in the Tianhe District People's Court, Guangzhou, Guandong, and the court has not yet issued a ruling and he remains in detention. Liu Yuandong said to his lawyer, Liu Zhengqing...

August 22, 2015

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