Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights Lawyers’
China: Immediately Release Human Rights Lawyer Yu Wensheng and Activist Xu Yan
We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are deeply concerned about this case and call for the immediate and unconditional release of Yu Wensheng and his wife, activist Xu Yan
Read MoreChina: Release Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng and End the Practice of Enforced Disappearances
Gao Zhisheng was one of the first human rights lawyers to emerge in the early 2000s and he became an important leader of China’s rights defense movement.
Read More“709 Crackdown 2.0” Global Call Against China’s Renewed Crackdown On Human Rights Lawyers
Today, we mark China Human Rights Lawyers Day, in remembrance of the Chinese government’s roundup of over 300 human rights lawyers and legal assistants in the days following July 9, 2015, in what is known as the ‘709 crackdown’.
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