Crime and Punishment of China’s Rights Lawyers
SOME OF THE LAWYERS DETAINED ON JULY 10. PHOTO: HTTP://WWW.HRICHINA.ORG/CHS/RENG-RAN-SHI-ZONG-HUO-JU-LIU-DE-WEI-QUAN-LU-SHI-HE-HUO-YUE-REN-SHI
This commentary was written and published in March 2014 in connection with the Jiansanjiang incident (建三江事件) in which four rights lawyers went to Heilongjiang province to free Falun Gong practitioners from a black jail. The lawyers were tortured and temporarily detained. Dissident intellectual Mo Zhixu’s observations about the political climate in China (paragraph 3 onward) stand out even more today in light of the recent large scale arrests of rights lawyers. – The Editors
