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Xia Ling’s sentence appeared to be the heaviest for a critic of the Chinese regime since Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti’s life imprisonment in 2014.
Epoch Times speaks with notable Chinese rights defense in a series of interviews.
Chen Guangcheng writes a passionate letter to his friend in China, fellow human rights lawyer Li Heping, who has been detained by the regime since July
Some 700 people gathered on Parliament Hill on Dec. 9, the eve of Human Rights Day, to deliver 95,000 petition signatures to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and to urge his government to pressure China to end the campaign of persecution of Falun Gong.
Canada’s Ambassador to China has called for the release of over 100 Chinese rights lawyers and activists in a move some describe as a break from protocol.
Attorneys in China already have difficulty defending clients; a new legal amendment seems intent to silence them completely.
In 1989, during the events of the Tiananmen demonstrations and massacre, Bao was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison.
For all the Chinese regime’s rhetoric on the so-called “rule of law,” all manner of obstacles have been thrown in the paths of human rights lawyers.
