Tag: Li Heping

Property Firm Cuts off Power to Home of Recently Evicted China Rights Lawyer, Family

Chen Zifei  | Radio Free Asia Wang Quanzhang‘s family has been left traumatized and separated by round-the-clock surveillance and harassment. Authorities in Beijing have stepped up their harassment of rights attorney Wang Quanzhang and his family, cutting off power to their new apartment and forcing his wife and child to leave. Forced to leave their […]

Rights Lawyer, Activist Wife Forced From Beijing Home Following Utilities Shutoff

Wang was a prominent target of a nationwide crackdown that saw more than 300 human rights lawyers and associates detained beginning on the night of July 9, 2015 – known as the “709 Crackdown.” He was subsequently jailed for several years after he was found guilty of “subversion of state power,” and later sued the authorities over his treatment while in detention.

Chinese Police Warn Father of Jailed Rights Lawyer After Family’s Angry Statement

Yang Fan and Ding Wenqi  |  Radio Free Asia The father of jailed Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong has been called in and issued a warning by the country’s state security police after the family issued a statement slamming the government’s forced “appointment” of defense lawyers in the case. “The state security police took […]

‘I Don’t Know Whether He’s Alive or Dead’

James Burke  |  Vision Times Human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was detained by Chinese authorities in July 2015. He was one of around 300 human rights activists and legal professionals targeted by the state that year in what has been described as the Chinese Communist Party’s “war on law.” Nearly two years later, the authorities […]

Human Rights Lawyers Shine in China, But Need the World to Notice

Stephen Gregory  |  Epoch Times Rep. Chris Smith seeks to marshal U.S. support for rights defenders WASHINGTON—Four Chinese women sat at a long oaken table in a hearing room on Capitol Hill on the afternoon of May 19 and asked the world to pay attention. Their husbands have been detained in China because of their […]

Chinese Rights Lawyer Finally Returns Home, ‘Thin And Gray’

Yang Fan, Ng Yik-tung and Sing Man  |  Radio Free Asia A Chinese rights lawyer detained in a nationwide crackdown in July 2015 has finally been allowed to return home following his release from jail after he was found guilty of subversion charges, his wife told RFA. Li Heping was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, […]

Lawyer Xie Yang Will Be Tried On April 25, Wife Says in a Statement

China Change This article was published first in China Change web site on April 21, 2017 Since the publication in early January of the “Transcript of Interviews with Lawyer Xie Yang,” made by lawyer Chen Jiangang, detailing a series of meetings with Xie Yang at the Changsha 2nd Detention Center, the Xie Yang case has taken many bizarre […]

Chinese Activists Send Cards to Hundreds of Prisoners of Conscience

Lee Lai  |  Radio Free Asia Rights activists in China have launched a greetings card campaign for political prisoners around the country ahead of Chinese New Year celebrations on Jan. 30, as foreign diplomats paid visits to embattled activists faced with eviction in Beijing. The campaign started with the mass mailing of some 200 greetings cards to jailed prisoners […]

The Anti-Torture Work of Lawyer Li Heping That Irked the Chinese Authorities

China Change This article was first published in ChinaChange web site on January 25 Lawyer Li Heping (李和平) is one of China’s earliest human rights lawyers and no stranger to torture. In an interview with the artist Ai Weiwei in 2010, he recounted how he was abducted one day in 2007 by Chinese domestic security […]