human rights lawyers

Chinese Lawyers’ ‘Original Sin’ — Speech by Lawyer Li Fangping on the 6th China Human Rights Lawyers Day Li Fangping, July 9, 2022 Li Fangping in 2014. Li Fangping started practicing law in China in the mid-1990s, first in Jiangxi and…

Announcing the 6th China Human Rights Lawyers Day June 16, 2022 The sixth annual China Human Rights Lawyers Day will be held virtually on July 9, 2022, at 9 a.m. EST (U.S.). In 2017, human rights organizations in the U.S., Taiwan, and…

The Defenders — 20 Years of Human Rights Lawyers in China / 辩护人: 中国人权律师二十年 March 17， 2022 [youtube…

Lawyers’ Struggles for Freedoms in China and the World – A Conversation With Professor Terence Halliday of The American Bar Foundation February 11, 2022 This wide-ranging, fascinating conversation was initially conducted on The American…

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…

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…

Announcing the 5th China Human Rights Lawyers Day; Calling for One-Person-One-Photo Messages May 22, 2021 The fifth China Human Rights Lawyers Day will be held virtually on July 9, 2021. The China Human Rights Lawyers Day was created on…

A night’s stay at Baotai Hotel, the place where my husband Chang Weiping was tortured Chen Zijuan, April 14, 2021 Today is Chang Weiping’s 37th birthday. He practiced law in Shaanxi province from 2013 to late 2018, when his license was…

‘He Committed Ideological Crimes’: Wife Recounts How Chinese Police Suppress the Family, Preventing Them From Speaking Out and Threatening Her Job After Human Rights Lawyer Chang Weiping’s Detention Chen Zijuan, February 15, 2021 Dr. Chen…