#Newspaper
Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng: (My) Husband Was Secretly Sentenced and Inter-Provincially Imprisoned. The Law in China Is Merely “On Paper”.
(24 Jun) Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng, who assisted the arrestees of "709 Mass Arrests," was sentenced to four years in prison by the Xuzhou City Intermediate People's Court in China for "inciting subversion of state power”.
In an interview with The Stand News, Xu Yan, the wife of Yu Wensheng, criticized Chinese law is merely well-developed “on paper”, while it breached the legal system to “secretly sentence” her husband without even noticing his family and defence attorney in advance. Xu has met with officials from seven countries to ensure her husband's right to appeal and his right to see his family.
As a Beijing native, Xu was detained in Jiangsu Province in Xuzhou, which is 1600 km away from Beijing. Since Yu was arrested the year before last, Xu has been going to Xuzhou once every 20 days to petition and defend human rights, spending more than 100,000 Chinese Yuan on train tickets, food and accommodation, but she has not been able to see her husband. Despite facing all kinds of hardships, she persevered, “because I believe that my husband is innocent”.
//the law in China “on paper” is well-developed, where the constitution provides human rights such as freedom of speech, but since the case of Yu, she has not received any indictment and verdict, even a trial was held without informing his family or lawyers.
//she was held in a police station for 19 hours without food or water, and was once interrogated in a torture "tiger chair", unable to move for nine hours.
//what happened at home has hurt her son deeply, “He locks the door as soon as he gets home and sleeps in a tent, feeling insecure”
Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Wife-of-Chinese-human-rights-lawyer-Yu-Wensheng-My-Husband-Was-Secretly-Sentenced-and-Inter-Provincially-Imprisoned-The-Law-in-C-07-07
Source: Stand News
https://bit.ly/3f4fpe3
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
Further reading:
Seized by the Police, an Outspoken Chinese Professor Sees Fears Come True
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/world/asia/china-detains-xu-zhangrun-critic.html
#humanrights #laywer #CCP #RuleOfLaw #NationalSecurityLaw #Torture #YuWensheng #709MassArrest
Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng: (My) Husband Was Secretly Sentenced and Inter-Provincially Imprisoned. The Law in China Is Merely “On Paper”.
(24 Jun) Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng, who assisted the arrestees of "709 Mass Arrests," was sentenced to four years in prison by the Xuzhou City Intermediate People's Court in China for "inciting subversion of state power”.
In an interview with The Stand News, Xu Yan, the wife of Yu Wensheng, criticized Chinese law is merely well-developed “on paper”, while it breached the legal system to “secretly sentence” her husband without even noticing his family and defence attorney in advance. Xu has met with officials from seven countries to ensure her husband's right to appeal and his right to see his family.
As a Beijing native, Xu was detained in Jiangsu Province in Xuzhou, which is 1600 km away from Beijing. Since Yu was arrested the year before last, Xu has been going to Xuzhou once every 20 days to petition and defend human rights, spending more than 100,000 Chinese Yuan on train tickets, food and accommodation, but she has not been able to see her husband. Despite facing all kinds of hardships, she persevered, “because I believe that my husband is innocent”.
//the law in China “on paper” is well-developed, where the constitution provides human rights such as freedom of speech, but since the case of Yu, she has not received any indictment and verdict, even a trial was held without informing his family or lawyers.
//she was held in a police station for 19 hours without food or water, and was once interrogated in a torture "tiger chair", unable to move for nine hours.
//what happened at home has hurt her son deeply, “He locks the door as soon as he gets home and sleeps in a tent, feeling insecure”
Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Wife-of-Chinese-human-rights-lawyer-Yu-Wensheng-My-Husband-Was-Secretly-Sentenced-and-Inter-Provincially-Imprisoned-The-Law-in-C-07-07
Source: Stand News
https://bit.ly/3f4fpe3
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
Further reading:
Seized by the Police, an Outspoken Chinese Professor Sees Fears Come True
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/world/asia/china-detains-xu-zhangrun-critic.html
#humanrights #laywer #CCP #RuleOfLaw #NationalSecurityLaw #Torture #YuWensheng #709MassArrest
Telegraph
Wife of Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng: (My) Husband Was Secretly Sentenced and Inter-Provincially Imprisoned. The Law…
#Newspaper (24 Jun) Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng, who assisted the arrestees of "709 Mass Arrests," was sentenced to four years in prison by the Xuzhou City Intermediate People's Court in China for "inciting subversion of state power”. In an interview…
#HumanitarianCrisis
China Detains Human Rights Lawyers and Familes On the Eve of World's Human Rights Day
The UN Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 since 1948. On the eve of this year's Human Rights Day, human rights lawyers in China and their families were barred from making public appearance and leaving their homes between December 9 and 10.
The National Security Police sent by the Chinese Communist Party government said blatantly that the aim was to prevent them from joining Human Rights Day activities.
The targets are human rights lawyers such as Yu Wensheng, Huang Quanzhang and Li Heping and their families. Not only that their homes were blocked or monitored by a group of unidentified agents, but they were also barred from bringing their kids to school or visiting hospitalized parent.
In Taiwan, 18 organizations petitioned and called on the international community to monitor China's human rights oppression.
Source: Stand News; Radio Free Asia #Dec9
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/htm/tw-rally-12092020060157.html
#HumanRightsDay
#HumanRightsLawyer
#YuWensheng #HuangQuanzhang #LiHeping
China Detains Human Rights Lawyers and Familes On the Eve of World's Human Rights Day
The UN Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 since 1948. On the eve of this year's Human Rights Day, human rights lawyers in China and their families were barred from making public appearance and leaving their homes between December 9 and 10.
The National Security Police sent by the Chinese Communist Party government said blatantly that the aim was to prevent them from joining Human Rights Day activities.
The targets are human rights lawyers such as Yu Wensheng, Huang Quanzhang and Li Heping and their families. Not only that their homes were blocked or monitored by a group of unidentified agents, but they were also barred from bringing their kids to school or visiting hospitalized parent.
In Taiwan, 18 organizations petitioned and called on the international community to monitor China's human rights oppression.
Source: Stand News; Radio Free Asia #Dec9
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/news/htm/tw-rally-12092020060157.html
#HumanRightsDay
#HumanRightsLawyer
#YuWensheng #HuangQuanzhang #LiHeping