{"id":84342,"date":"2018-06-29T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=84342 "},"modified":"2018-06-29T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T11:51:00","slug":"84342-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=84342","title":{"rendered":"Announcement Regarding the Annual \u2018China Human Rights Lawyers Day\u2019 Event"},"content":{"rendered":"
June 24, 2018<\/span><\/div>

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China human rights lawyers day<\/span><\/p>

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China’s community of human rights lawyers have made enormous sacrifices to defend the rights and freedoms of citizens and promote China’s progress toward the rule-of-law and democracy. As representatives of China’s wider community of lawyers, human rights lawyers have, since the beginning of the rights defense movement in early 2000s, been the constant target of severe government repression. This has included, without letup, cancellation of legal licenses, being stalked, being threatened, being publicly defamed, being kidnapped, being secretly disappeared, and being subject to forced labor, long-term incarceration, or torture.<\/span><\/p>

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On July 9, 2017, marking the second anniversary of the Communist Party’s most brutal persecution of human rights lawyers with the ‘709 incident,’ 14 human rights organizations held an ‘Inaugural China Human Rights Lawyers’ Day’ in Washington, D.C. Through speeches, a photographic exhibition, a documentary, a march, and a live broadcast online, we showed to the world the bearing and courage of China’s rights defense lawyers, and brought their plight and peril to the attention to the wider world.<\/span><\/p>

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A year has passed, and Zhou Shifeng (<\/span>\u5468\u4e16\u92d2<\/span>), Jiang Tianyong (<\/span>\u6c5f\u5929\u52c7<\/span>), Tang Jingling (<\/span>\u5510\u834a\u9675<\/span>), Xia Lin (<\/span>\u590f\u9716<\/span>), and others are still imprisoned. Yu Wensheng (<\/span>\u4f59\u6587\u751f<\/span>) and Li Yuhan (<\/span>\u674e\u6631\u51fd<\/span>), among others, have been newly arrested and jailed. Wang Quanzhang (<\/span>\u738b\u5168\u748b<\/span>) remains disappeared, with no news of his whereabouts or condition for three years now. Gao Zhisheng (<\/span>\u9ad8\u667a\u665f<\/span>) has once again been disappeared, now for 11 months. Over 20 lawyers have had their licenses cancelled or face disbarment. Tragically, two outstanding rights defense lawyers, Li Subin (<\/span>\u674e\u8607\u6ff1<\/span>) and Li Baiguang (<\/span>\u674e\u67cf\u5149<\/span>), have left us forever.<\/span><\/p>

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The persecution continues, and human rights defenders continue to hold their ground and resist. This year we hold in New York a second ‘China Human Rights Lawyers’ Day,’ and also to establish a ‘709 Rights Defense Lawyer Award.’ The date of July 9 now symbolizes the glorious and thorny road that China’s human rights lawyers walk. Every July 9, we — coming from around the world, including Chinese rights defenders and those who care deeply about the struggle for a free and democratic China — will mark ‘China Human Rights Lawyers’ Day’ and support one other through this dark time.<\/span><\/p>

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We firmly believe that one day in the future we will be marking the occasion of July 9 in a free China with the rule of law.<\/span><\/p>

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Time: July 8, 2018     2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT<\/span><\/p>

Location: Bateman Room, Fordham Law School (2nd floor of 150 West 62nd,New York)<\/span><\/p>

Hashtags:  #<\/span>\u4e2d\u570b\u4eba\u6b0a\u5f8b\u5e2b\u7bc0<\/span> or #709lawyers on social media<\/span><\/p>

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Sponsors <\/span><\/p>

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Humanitarian China (U.S.A)<\/span><\/p>

China Change (U.S.A)<\/span><\/p>

China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group (Hong Kong)<\/span><\/p>

Taiwan Support China Human Rights Lawyers Network (Taiwan)<\/span><\/p>

Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers<\/span>\uff08<\/span>U.S.A<\/span>\uff09<\/span><\/p>

Chinese Democracy Education Foundation (U.S.A)<\/span><\/p>

Dialogue China (U.S.A)<\/span><\/p>

ChinaAid  (U.S.A)<\/span><\/p>

Taiwan Association for China Human Rights (Taiwan)<\/span><\/p>

Human Rights Law Foundation (U.S.A)<\/span><\/p>

New School for Democracy (Hong Kong)<\/span><\/p>

Visual Artists Guild (U.S.A)<\/span><\/p>

China Anti-Torture Alliance (US\/China)<\/span><\/p>

Institute for China’s Democratic Transition (U.S.A)<\/span><\/p>

Uyghur Human Rights Project (U.S.A)<\/span><\/p>

China Strategic Analysis Center (U.S.A)<\/span><\/p>

Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers\/<\/span><\/p>

International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) (France)<\/span><\/p>

Safeguard Defenders (Hong Kong)<\/span><\/p>

Students for a Free Tibet (U.S.A)<\/span><\/p>

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Special Thanks<\/span>\uff1a<\/span><\/p>

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Alexandre Law Firm (NYC)<\/span><\/p>

Law Office of Yujian Zhang, P.C. (NYC)<\/span><\/p>

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Advisors<\/span><\/p>

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Jerome Cohen (<\/span>\u5b54\u5091\u69ae<\/span>), law professor and faculty director of U.S.-Asia Law Institute, New York University.<\/span><\/p>

Andrew Nathan (<\/span>\u9ece\u5b89\u53cb<\/span>), Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University.<\/span><\/p>

Albert Ho (<\/span>\u4f55\u4fca\u4ec1<\/span>), solicitor, chairman of China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, current chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China.<\/span><\/p>

Martin Flaherty, Leitner Family Professor, Co-Director of Leitner Center for International Law and Justice.<\/span><\/p>

Terry Halliday, Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation.<\/span><\/p>

Rob Precht, Founder & President of Justice Labs.<\/span><\/p>

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Contacts<\/span><\/p>

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Teng Biao, tengbiao89@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>

Yaxue Cao, yaxuecao@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>

Zhou Fengsuo, fzhou89@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>

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For detail please visit here<\/span><\/a><\/p>

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