Amnesty International urges China to release human rights lawyers detained since 2019

December 23, 2024 | JURISTnews | By Arnav Laroia

Uyghur Human Rights Project described the 2019 arrests as “709 crackdown 2.0.” The first crackdown referred to the government’s mass arrests of over 300 human rights lawyers on 9 July 2015 by abusing its subversions provisions. UN Special Rapporteurs similarly condemned the 2019 arrests as a part of “systemic crackdown on lawyers and human rights defenders since the so-called ‘709 crackdown’ in summer 2015.”

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