China Human Rights Defenders

Xi Jinping and Collective Punishment of Human Rights Defenders’ Families

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China’s Crackdown on Foreign Firms Is a Symptom of a Much Deeper Problem

For two years Chinese authorities secretly detained the newborn baby, her siblings, and their parents.  Their whereabouts and wellbeing remained unknown to family members or lawyers until word began to trickle out in July 2022: the baby and her sister, then 6 years old, had been kept in a psychiatric hospital since October 2020. Their … Read more

8 Years After ‘709,’ Persecution of Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Continues

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8 Years After ‘709,’ Persecution of Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Continues

Advertisement Starting on July 9, 2015, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented nationwide crackdown on human rights lawyers. In the following few months, police interrogated and detained over 300 lawyers and paralegal assistants and raided three law firms. Dozens of lawyers and legal assistants and activists were detained, and 15 were eventually convicted. These lawyers … Read more