Human Rights & Civil Rights

An End-of-Year Reflection on My Disbarment Liang Xiaojun, January 6, 2022 Liang Xiaojun has practiced law in Beijing for twenty years, devoting the last twelve years of his career to human rights cases. He is the director of Beijing…

The Spring Breeze Is Bound to Cause Ripples: A New Year Statement by The China Human Rights Lawyers Group January 1, 2022 In 1925, the 26-year-old poet and political dissident Wen Yiduo (闻一多) wrote in his poem titled “Dead Water”: Here is…

An Appeal to the Chinese Government Regarding Guo Feixiong’s Departure From China To Whom It May Concern in the Government of China: We are a group of scholars in China studies with longstanding interests in the progress of human rights…

Free Zhang Zhan – Speech at the Lin Zhao Freedom Award Ceremony Yaxue Cao, December 7, 2021 I want to thank ChinaAid for recognizing Zhang Zhan and for allowing me to say a few words in her absence. It’s an honor, and it is also deeply…

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…

Opening remarks by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Director of IBAHRI, at the 5th China Human Rights Lawyers Day, July 9, 2021 [youtube…

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…