July 9 marks the eighth year of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) suppression of human rights lawyers in China. To this day, they continue to be persecuted, according to Chinese lawyers who recently spoke with The Epoch Times.
In 2015, the CCP launched a nationwide campaign to persecute human rights lawyers, activists, and their families. The regime arrested over 300 lawyers and activists on July 9 that year, later known as the “709 Crackdown,” or “709” for short.
Eight years have passed, and the human rights situation in China has continued to deteriorate, a Chinese human rights lawyer told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times in a recent interview….