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“Joint Statement from 709 Victims’ Families: Release Our Family Members, Refuse Attempts to Divide Us, Monitor the Trials, and Acquit the Detained Activists”
In this statements, eight family members of lawyers detained in the “709” crackdown express strong concern about Wang Yu being threatened and pressured into doing a video “interview ” in which she criticized her former colleague, Zhou Shifeng, as not being a “proper” lawyer. The statement also...
August 1, 2016
Citizens' Square
Wang Yu
Zhao Wei’s Husband: Zhao’s Defense Lawyer Arrested for “False Rumors”
You Minglei is the husband of Zhao Wei. The content of this message is from Weiquan Wang. Statement from You Minglei: I received news tonight that Mr. Ren Quanniu, the lawyer I appointed to represent Zhao Wei, was criminally detained on July 8 by public security authorities in Zhengzhou for “...
July 8, 2016
Citizens' Square
Wives of Lawyers Detained in “709 Crackdown” Taken Away for Carrying out “Bucket Show” Protest, Defense Lawyers Reprimanded by Police
Today, outside the entrance of the No. 2 branch of the Tianjin People’s Procuratorate, the wives of a number of lawyers who were arrested and disappeared in the “709 crackdown” nearly a year ago, used a “bucket show” to protest the authorities’ trampling on the law and express support for their...
June 6, 2016
Citizens' Square
Joint Complaint by 82 Lawyers against Detention of Family Members of Lawyers in Custody since July 2015
Eighty-two lawyers from 18 provinces and municipalities jointly issued a public complaint about the detention of the wives of four individuals who have been in custody since the “709” crackdown on rights defense lawyers of July 2015, along with four lawyers who took a group photo with the wives...
June 8, 2016
Citizens' Square
What on Earth is Going On?!—Family Members and Lawyers of “709 Crackdown” Victims Being Controlled by Police!
Wang Quanxiu, elder sister of lawyer Wang Quanzhang, explains in the below account that Wang has been imprisoned for a full 11 months, on suspicion of “subversion of state power,” and that their mother spent her 70th birthday silently suffering and extremely worried about her son. Today, Wang...
June 6, 2016
Citizens' Square
Urgent Requests by Shu Xiangxin’s Defense Lawyers on His Physical Condition after Beating
The morning before the January 8 trial of Shu Xiangxin, a Jinan rights defense lawyer charged with "libel," his lawyers Cai Ying and Li Fangping visited him at the Jinan No.2 detention center. They observed Shu’s deteriorating health conditions following savage beatings that Shu reported suffering...
January 8, 2016
Citizens' Square
Provisions On Ensuring The Practice Rights Of Lawyers In Accordance With Law
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Promulgating Authority: 
Ministry of Public Security
Supreme People's Procuratorate
Supreme People’s Court
Lawyer of Wang Yu Forcibly Returned to Shenyang, Calls for Attention
Shenyang lawyer Li Yuhan, who practices in Beijing, published an update on March 15, 2016 in which she describes the events that unfolded when she went to the Tianjin Municipal Detention Center to request a meeting with Wang Yu on March 1. On that day, the detention center told her that Wang had...
March 15, 2016
Citizens' Square
Wang Yu
3 Letters: Lawyers for Zhang Kai and Liu Peng Request Meetings with Their Clients in Accordance with the Law
After the families of Zhang Kai and Liu Peng received notices stating that the two had dismissed their defense lawyers, the lawyers, Zhang Lei and Li Boguang, requested that the Wenzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau arrange meetings with their clients, in order to confirm the dismissal in person...
November 23, 2015
Citizens' Square
From a Group of Women, a Letter for One Woman—Happy Birthday Lawyer Wang Yu!
Dear Lawyer Wang Yu: Hello! After July 9, 2015, when we saw that famous video of you on the Internet, our first feeling was: how were you able to point at the bailiff and reprimand him in court? We were really hoping the video would cut to where you were pointing, so that we could see exactly what...
April 29, 2016
Citizens' Square
709 Families and Supporters

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