{"id":84735,"date":"2018-07-14T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=84735 "},"modified":"2018-07-14T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:57:00","slug":"84735-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=84735","title":{"rendered":"Detained Chinese Rights Lawyer Wang Quanzhang \\’Appears Well,\\’ Wife Told"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chinese human rights attorney Wang Quanzhang, who disappeared in July 2015 during a nationwide police operation targeting rights lawyers, in an undated photo.<\/span><\/div>
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Three years after his ‘disappearance’ during a nationwide police operation targeting human rights attorneys, Wang Quanzhang has reportedly been seen by a colleague in the Tianjin No. 1 Detention Center, his wife said on Friday.<\/span><\/div>
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Wang’s wife Li Wenzu received a message from a friend on Friday reporting that her husband in “in a good state, both physically and mentally,” she said.<\/span><\/div>
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“Someone told me that [another lawyer] had seen Wang Quanzhang, and that they were able to confirm that he is alive, and in reasonable mental and physical health,” Li told RFA.<\/span><\/div>
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“The person who passed on the message is someone I trust, so I believe them, and the fact that they brought me this news is a huge relief,” she said. “But there was no other news; only that.”<\/span><\/div>
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Li declined to identify the person who gave her the message, nor the lawyer who was able to meet with him.<\/span><\/div>
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“It wasn’t either of the lawyers I hired; neither of them has seen him,” she said.<\/span><\/div>
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Li said she plans to head to Tianjin to make further inquiries of the authorities regarding her husband’s case, and said she has no further information.<\/span><\/div>
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“I have no way of speculating on any of this, so all I can say is that I don’t know,” she said. “I still have to do what I have to do until he is safely back home.”<\/span><\/div>
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Wang, who once worked for the now-shuttered Fengrui law firm, was initially detained amid a wave of police raids launched in July 2015 on suspicion of “incitement to subvert state power.”<\/span><\/div>
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Lawyers, friends and relatives have made dozens of attempts to visit Wang since his detention, and Li has been repeatedly harassed by police for speaking out on behalf of her husband.<\/span><\/div>
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Calls to the Tianjin No. 1 Detention Center rang unanswered during office hours on Friday. An employee who answered the phone at the Tianjin No. 2 Detention Center said he had been transferred.<\/span><\/div>
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“There is nobody here by that name; he was transferred elsewhere, but where, I couldn’t say,” the employee said. “He’s not here at No. 2, at any rate.”<\/span><\/div>
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Repeated calls to rights lawyer Lin Qilei, who was hired by Li to represent her husband, but who has been prevented from meeting with him, rang unanswered on Friday.<\/span><\/div>
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Lin was informed earlier this week that the Beijing municipal authorities were investigating his law firm Ruiqi for alleged illegal business practices.<\/span><\/div>
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Fengrui was the first target of police raids and detentions in July 2015 that broadened into a nationwide operation targeting more than 300 lawyers, law firm staff and associated rights activists for detention, professional sanctions, house arrest, and travel bans, including for family members.<\/span><\/div>
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Fellow rights attorney Xie Yanyi said he has doubts about the veracity of the message given to Li, however.<\/span><\/div>
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“Why are they telling her this on the anniversary of the death of [Nobel peace laureate and political prisoner] Liu Xiaobo?” Xie said.<\/span><\/div>
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“I think the source of this information is an official one, and they want to lessen the pressure they are getting from the outside world,” he said. “We should remain vigilant.”<\/span><\/div>
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<div>Wang's wife Li Wenzu received a message from a friend on Friday reporting that her husband in "in a good state, both physically and mentally," she said."Someone told me that [another lawyer] had seen Wang Quanzhang, and that they were able to confirm that he is alive, and in reasonable mental and physical health," Li told RFA.<\/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-84735","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\/84735","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=84735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}