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Global Announcement of the Memorial on the First Anniversary of Liu Xiaobo’s Passing
Gethsemane Church, Berlin, June 26, 2018
Upon the first anniversary of the death of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, a public memorial will be held in the Gethsemane Church (at Stargarder Str. 77, 10437) in Berlin, on July 13, 2018, at 6:00 p.m. On this day last year, China’s most famous political prisoner perished in custody, under tight surveillance and official control, in a hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. Two days later the world saw his ashes scattered in the Yellow Sea.
The Gethsemane Church in Berlin is as renowned as the Nikolai Church in Leipzig — both of which were important refuges for East German dissidents. A few days before the fall of the Berlin Wall….
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Updates on 709 Lawyer Wang Quanzhang’s Circumstances and Impending Trial From His Lawyer and Wife
July 19, 2018 Lawyer Wang Quanzhang (王全璋), who was disappeared on July 15, 2018 in the Chinese Communist Party’s infamous 709 Crackdown on human…
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709 Crackdown Three Years on: Mother and Lawyer Reveals Brutality Against Her Teenage Son for the First Time
Wang Yu, July 1, 2018 Wang Yu (王宇), born 1971 in Inner Mongolia, was a lawyer with the Beijing Fengrui Law Firm when she…
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Announcement Regarding the Annual ‘China Human Rights Lawyers Day’ Event
June 24, 2018 China’s community of human rights lawyers have made enormous sacrifices to defend the rights and freedoms of citizens and promote…
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China Fails in its Gambit to Use the UN NGO Committee to Silence the Society for Threatened Peoples and Uyghur Activist Dolkun Isa
Andrea Worden, July 10, 2018 During the most recent session of the UN’s Committee on NGOs, China attempted unsuccessfully to have the…
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709 Crackdown Three Years on: Keynote Address on the Second China Human Rights Lawyers’ Day, July 8, 2018, New York City
Terence Halliday, July 9, 2018 Again and again, across history and across regions, lawyers stand in the vanguard of change. In Britain in…
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709 Crackdown Three Years on: A Tribute to Wang Quanzhang
Yaxue Cao, on the second China Human Rights Lawyers’ Day, July 8, 2018, New York As of today, lawyer Wang Quanzhang has been held…
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709 Crackdown Three Years on: ‘The Most Painful Part of It all Was the Squandering of Life’
Xie Yanyi, July 8, 2018 My name is Xie Yanyi. I’ve been a lawyer for 17 years. In 2003 I was the first…
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709 Crackdown Three Years on: ‘We Don’t Accept the Communist Party’s Attempt to Instill Terror in Us’
Xie Yang, July 6, 2018 My name is Xie Yang. I’m a lawyer at the Gangwei Law Firm, in Changsha, Hunan. On…
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709 Crackdown Three Years on: ‘You’re Guilty of Whatever Crime They Say You Are’
Sui Muqing, July 5, 2018 Hello everyone. I’m lawyer Sui Muqing from Guangzhou. I practiced law in Guangzhou from 1998 to 2017.…
