Xu Zhiyong, translated by Leo Timm, July 25, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, he had served [...] Keep reading »

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Leo Timm, July 22, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Before this, he had served [...] Keep reading »

Yaxue Cao, July 3, 2024, London In the course of hundreds of interrogations of the 709 lawyers, an interrogator once said that the aim of the 709 case was to create a “hot stove effect” for the lawyers across China: they should know that the stove is burning hot, and they should not try to touch it. The irony there is that the tormentors were l [...] Keep reading »

China Change, July 8, 2024 Six 709 lawyers and three 709 lawyers’ wives speak out on the 9th anniversary of the 709 Crackdown on human rights lawyers and defenders about the continuous harassment, loss of livelihood, and the significance of the fateful event that started nine years ago and is still ongoing. 709大抓捕九周年，六位律� [...] Keep reading »

29 Principles and China Change, July 1, 2024 This year, 2024, marks the 9th anniversary of the “709” crackdown on China’s human rights lawyers and rights activists that began in the summer of 2015. Since then, the Chinese authorities’ repression of these lawyers has continued nonstop, with harassment and restrictions extending to their rela [...] Keep reading »

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Joshua Rosenzweig and Leo Timm, June 27, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Befo [...] Keep reading »

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Joshua Rosenzweig and Leo Timm, June 25, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Befo [...] Keep reading »

Xu Zhiyong, translated by Joshua Rosenzweig and Leo Timm, June 25, 2024 Note From the Editor Born in 1973, Dr. Xu Zhiyong (许志永) is a legal scholar, pioneer of China’s rights defense movement, and a founder of the New Citizens Movement. On April 10, 2023, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of “subverting state power.” Befo [...] Keep reading »

Geoffrey Roberts, June 11, 2024 The Chinese government’s brutal massacre of protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on 3-4 June 1989 marked a major turning point in China’s relationship with human rights and international human rights advocates. Tiananmen resulted in widespread international condemnation, the imposition of economic and diplo [...] Keep reading »