{"id":40881,"date":"2014-07-12T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=40881 "},"modified":"2014-07-12T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T12:38:00","slug":"40881-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=40881","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Lawyers Point to Widening Official Attacks, Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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File photo of human rights lawyer Li Fangping in Beijing, April 3, 2008<\/div>
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The Chinese government is continuing an apparent policy of nationwide harassment and physical attacks on the nation’s lawyers, especially those involved in politically sensitive or high-profile cases, lawyers said.<\/div>
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Liu Zhengqing, a prominent rights attorney from the southern city of Guangzhou, was visited around midnight by four police officers in a hotel room while he was in Guangdong’s Foshan city, defending a case, he told RFA.<\/div>
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The officers proceeded to search his room, he said.<\/div>
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“They didn’t give a reason, nor did they produce any official documents,” Liu said. “They just showed up out of the blue while I was asleep and opened the door and walked right in.”<\/div>
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“They flipped through all of my case files. They said they were police, and that they had the power to search any Chinese citizen,” he said.<\/div>
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He said he believed the visit to have been a form of deliberate harassment on the part of the authorities.<\/div>
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“I will definitely be pursuing this,” Liu said.<\/div>
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Roughly handled<\/div>
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Meanwhile, top Beijing rights lawyer Li Fangping said he had been manhandled and roughly treated by officers from a state prosecution service.<\/div>
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The incident happened after Li traveled to the central province of Hunan to help local attorney Cai Ying with a case. Cai was illegally detained, while the officials used “a great deal of force” to shove Li around, he said.<\/div>
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<div>The incident happened after Li traveled to the central province of Hunan to help local attorney Cai Ying with a case. Cai was illegally detained, while the officials used "a great deal of force" to shove Li around, he said.<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}