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8 Years Since Nationwide Suppression, Persecution Continues for China’s Rights Lawyers

July 18, 2023
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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….

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Chinese Lawyers Forced to Study Political Brainwashing Doctrine

June 28, 2023
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Since the 709 Crackdown in 2015—when Chinese authorities arrested hundreds of human rights lawyers, dissidents, and petitioners—Beijing has intensified its communist brainwashing among law firms throughout China. Chinese lawyers revealed to the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times that ideological indoctrination has always existed, but it used to only apply to Communist Party members….

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Beijing Human Rights Lawyers Experience Repeated Eviction

May 5, 2023
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It’s been eight years since the Chinese Communist Party carried out a massive wave of arrests on July 9, 2015, incarcerating hundreds of human rights lawyers and activists in what became known as the 709 Crackdown. Today, victims of the Crackdown still face oppression by the regime—even after they have been released from jail. Recently,…

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LIVE NOW: New York Student Group Holds Movie Screening and Panel Discussion on Chinese Human Rights Lawyers

January 26, 2023
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Yaxue, the founder of China Change, and Chen Guangcheng, the “Barefoot lawyer” to mark the 20 years of fight the Chinese human rights lawyer experienced. Students also call on Chinese authorities to free all the lawyers detained in the 709 Crackdown on Chinese human rights lawyers. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …

New York Student Group Holds Movie Screening and Panel Discussion on Chinese Human Rights Lawyers

January 26, 2023
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Columbia University student group Zeta-Beta-Tau holds a screening and panel discussion at 5:00 p.m. ET on Jan. 26 featuring Yaxue, the founder of China Change, and Chen Guangcheng, the “Barefoot lawyer,” to mark the 20 years of struggle the Chinese human rights lawyer experienced. Students also call on Chinese authorities to free all the lawyers…

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Beijing Arrested 1.43 Million People in a 100-Day Security Campaign Ahead of National Meeting

September 30, 2022
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Beijing has detained 1.43 million Chinese in a three-month security campaign ahead of the Party’s national meeting. However, not all those arrested were criminals. Tightened security is required  as the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), scheduled for October, approaches. The regime set up a “100-day Operation” that started on June 25….

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