{"id":46712,"date":"2015-04-21T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=46712 "},"modified":"2015-04-21T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T21:53:00","slug":"46712-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=46712","title":{"rendered":"Mob Attacks Four Lawyers Outside Court Building in China\\&#8217;s Hunan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>2015-04-21<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/16\/2015421f6e7764d-cf7e-46e7-86ec-2191819c0e92.jpeg\" alt=\"2015421f6e7764d-cf7e-46e7-86ec-2191819c0e92.jpeg (622&#215;394)\" \/><br \/><div><\/div><div>China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group hold placards of missing, detained or under-house-arrest lawyers in China in a protest in Hong Kong, Jan. 27, 2011.<\/div><div>&nbsp;AFP<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Four lawyers who complained repeatedly that their clients had been tortured to obtain confessions in a high-profile anti-gang case in the central Chinese province of Hunan were beaten up by unidentified men outside the gates of a city court building on Tuesday.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Lawyers Zhang Lei, Wang Fu, Liu Jinbin, and legal assistant Chen Jianxiong were set upon as they arrived to defend their clients at the Hengyang Intermediate People&#8217;s Court, Zhang told RFA.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;Four lawyers were subjected to a violent attack at the gates of the Hengyang Intermediate People&#8217;s Court,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;I was injured the worst out of everybody. My elbows and knees are scraped and bloody, and I have some fairly serious soft tissue injuries in my abdomen.&#8221;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Zhang said the attackers had already surrounded Liu when he arrived at the municipal court building on Tuesday morning.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;When I got to the front gates of the court, I saw some people had surrounded Liu Jinbin and were attacking him, so I went and took some photos, so then they surrounded and attacked me as well,&#8221; Zhang said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;I was surrounded and beaten up by a lot of people, who ripped my clothes and dragged me around,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;The whole thing lasted around five minutes.&#8221;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Attackers included women<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Zhang said that all four men had sustained minor injuries and severely ripped clothing as a result of the attack by the unidentified assailants as they arrived to defend their clients.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;I have a lot of injuries as a result,&#8221; Zhang said. &#8220;Wang Fu and his assistant Chen Jianxiong were also beaten up before me.&#8221;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;My right shoulder, elbow, and wrist are all scraped and cut and my clothes have been ripped to shreds,&#8221; Zhang said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;Wang Fu has holes ripped in his coat, suit, shirt, and underwear, while Liu Jinbin lost his glasses and cell phone in the attack, and he is bleeding from a cut lip,&#8221; he added.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Wang estimated that around 16 or 17 men and women had attacked the four lawyers.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;I arrived at the gates of the court and someone asked me if I was Wang Fu, the lawyer, and I said I was,&#8221; Wang said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;Then they started punching me, and then they beat up my assistant, who was taking photos.&#8221;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;They even tried to rip my trousers off. I have injuries all over my body, especially cuts and scratches on my upper body,&#8221; he said, adding that the majority of the attackers were women.<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/attacks-04212015145026.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lawyers Zhang Lei, Wang Fu, Liu Jinbin, and legal assistant Chen Jianxiong were set upon as they arrived to defend their clients at the Hengyang Intermediate People&#39;s Court, Zhang told RFA.&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/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-46712","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\/46712","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=46712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}