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 »Xie Yanyi, a human rights lawyer and 709 crackdown victim who was held in paramilitary detention and tortured in custody, speaks about his experiences.
Full Transcript »Sui Muqing, a human rights lawyer in China, reflects on his experiences in legal rights defense as the Chinese Communist Party undertakes a campaign of suppression of those like him.
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