Civil Society

Lin’s Uprising — A Human Rights Lawyer Recounts How His Law Firm Was Shut Down and His License Revoked China Change, November 21, 2021 [youtube…

Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Circulate Open Letter to Shanghai Authorities Appealing for Citizen Journalist Zhang Zhan to Receive a Full Physical Examination and Emergency Medical Treatment November 15, 2021 To the directors of the…

China’s Best Known Public Interest Litigator Awaits Trial Yaxue Cao, October 31, 2021 In China, Hao Jinsong (郝劲松) is very well-known as a public interest litigator who, for the better part of seven years between 2004 and 2010, sued…

Indictment of Citizens Movement Advocate Xu Zhiyong — A Full Translation Xu Zhiyong (left) and Ding Jiaxi Shangdong Province Linyi Municipal People’s Procuratorate Indictment Lin Proc Dept One Crim Indict No. Z43 Defendant Xu Zhiyong…

Indictment of Citizens Movement Advocate Ding Jiaxi — A Full Translation Ding Jiaxi (right) and Xu Zhiyong Shangdong Province Linyi Municipal People’s Procuratorate Indictment Lin Proc Dept One Crim Indict No. Z42 Defendant Ding Jiaxi…

Civil Rights Advocates Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi Indicted for Subversion on Scant, Slanderous ‘Evidence’ China Change, September 25, 2021 Xu Zhiyong (left) and Ding Jiaxi On December 7 and 8, 2019, twenty or so people – more than half of…

Sun Dawu’s Closing Court Statement Sun Dawu, July 28, 2021, in Gaobeidian Court, Baoding City, Hebei Province I thank this court for allowing me the opportunity to present my case. I would like to start with an overview of Dawu Group’s…

Briefing on the Eleventh Day of Dawu Trial — 10 Questions and 10 Answers July 25, 2021 The Communist Party Committee of Xushui District held its third meeting of some 260 Party delegates on July 21 and 22, 2021, at Dawu Auditorium. But…

Lawyer’s Account of Meeting With Detained Civil Rights Activist Ding Jiaxi Li Xiongbing, July 15, 2021 July 13, 2021, a summer day in Beijing. The sun was emerging after a rain shower. I waded through puddles on the road heading for…

Response to a Journalist’s Query Regarding the Sun Dawu Verdict Yaxue Cao, July 28, 2021 There is no sun, moon and stars but dazzling lights that blind me day and night, With two armed soldiers guarding me, six shifts a day, through long…