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China Change Exclusive: Liu Xia Cries Out for Help in a Phone Call With Liao Yiwu on April 8, 2018
May 2, 2018
On April 30, 2018, at 4:00 p.m. in Germany, I spoke to Liu Xia at her home in Beijing. She said: “Now, I’ve got nothing to be afraid of. If I can’t leave, I’ll die in my home. Xiaobo is gone, and there’s nothing in the world for me now. It’s easier to die than live. Using death to defy could not be any simpler for me.”
I felt like I’d just been shocked with a jolt of electricity. I told her to wait. I know that the Chinese Ministry of State Security agents that have been holding her under house arrest, since Xiaobo passed away last July and Liu Xia was forcibly taken to Dali in Yunnan for a while….
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A Hearing With Chinese Characteristics: How the Beijing Lawyers’ Association Helps Persecute Human Rights Lawyers
Xie Yanyi, May 21, 2018 Xie Yanyi, who turned 43 this year, is a lawyer in Beijing who has taken on numerous human rights…
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War on Human Rights Lawyers Continues: Up to 16 More Lawyers in China Face Disbarment or Inability to Practice
China Change, May 14, 2018 Following the ‘709 crackdown’ — a large-scale attack against human rights lawyers that began on July 9, 2015…
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How Lawyer Wang Yu Was Made to Denounce the American Bar Association’s Human Rights Award in 2016
May 9, 2018 Background On July 9, 2015, Wang Yu (王宇) became the first target in a campaign of mass arrests against…
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Communist Party’s Suppression of Lawyers Is a Preemptive Attack Against an Imaginary Threat
Liu Shuqing, May 16, 2018 Beginning last year as the 709 crackdown gradually petered out, the government’s hands were freed up, and they decided…
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The Significance of Crane Operators Across China Going on Strike
Wang Jiangsong, May 7, 2018 On April 25, an open letter from a WeChat group named “Changsha tower crane operator federation” (长沙塔吊联盟) was…
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A Six-day Strike in Shanghai Caused by a $110 Pay Cut – Collective Action by Sanitation Workers in China’s ‘New Era’ of Stability Maintenance
Wang Jiangsong, April 13, 2018 In late March in the Changning district of Shanghai, 3,000 sanitation workers went on strike. Before long, the…
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