China Change, July 25, 2025 (Email subscribers may have to view in browser to see the embedded YouTube link.) 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 […]
Full Transcript »In 2008, encouraged by a sense that China was opening up to more democratic norms, a group of lawyers in Beijing sought to directly elect the Beijing Lawyers Association. In this film, nine participating lawyers tell this story of struggle and persecution.
Full Transcript »China Change, partnered with Humanitarian China, has compiled this 19-minute video presentation about the Chinese regime’s ongoing repression of churches, particularly in central China’s Henan Province.
Full Transcript »China Change, partnered with Humanitarian China, has compiled this 19-minute video presentation about the Chinese regime’s ongoing repression of churches, particularly in central China’s Henan Province.
Full Transcript »In this new video exclusive to China Change, Xu Zhiyong (许志永), one of China’s foremost civil rights activists, speaks about his current projects and hopes for the future. Xu was released from prison in July, 2017, after serving four years in prison for his role in the New Citizens Movement.”
Full Transcript »This video emerged on the internet recently, reportedly from Shenzhen, showing a woman detained by police for internet posts she had made.
Full Transcript »Terence Halliday, a research professor at the American Bar Foundation, and co-author of Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work, spoke at Fordham University on July 8, marking the third anniversary of the 709 crackdown.
Full Transcript »This video was the introductory piece for the Second Annual China Human Rights Lawyers’ Day held at Fordham University on July 8, 2018.
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