China Change, July 25, 2025
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This documentary offers, for the first time, an authoritative overall account and analysis of the 709 Crackdown on human rights lawyers in China that began ten years ago in 2015, covering all aspects of the incident: arrests, smear campaign, torture, forced confession, trials, and more.
Eleven lawyers appear on camera: Wang Yu, Bao Longjun, Zhou Shifeng, Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yanyi, Jiang Tianyong, Sui Muqing, Chen Taihe, Xie Yang, Chen Jiangang; rights activist Wu Gan; and three 709 lawyers’ wives: Wang Qiaoling, Li Wenzu, and Yuan Shanshan.
The film also explains the intrinsic logic of the Chinese Communist Party’s suppression of lawyers and rights defense citizens against the backdrop of a rapidly changing China in recent decades.
Through a diverse montage of human rights lawyers, it reveals the true scope of the crackdown that’s still ongoing to this day with no relief in sight.
The 709 Crackdown is a sign of the direction the CCP has been taking China in recent decade, and it also serves as a barometer of China’s future as a country.
35 minutes.
China Change
July 9, 2025
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時值709十週年之際，這部紀錄片第一次對709大抓捕進行了全景概括和分析，包括逮捕、誣名、酷刑、強迫認罪、審判等各個環節。
上鏡的包括十一位律師：王宇、包龍軍、周世鋒、李和平、王全璋、謝燕益、江天勇、隋牧青、陳泰和、謝陽、陳建剛；維權公民吳淦；以及三名709家屬：王峭嶺、李文足、原珊珊。
影片同時融匯了大量人權律師工作和生活的照片，闡述了中共政權鎮壓人權律師和維權公民的內在邏輯與時代背景，以及709打壓律師的真實規模。
這場打壓直到今天仍在繼續，沒有停止的跡象。
709大抓捕代表着中國共產黨政權的走向，也標誌着中國國運的轉折。
35分鐘。
China Change (改變中國)
2025年7月9日
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