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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

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EU urges China to free activists on crackdown anniversary

//The EU on Wednesday urged China to free hundreds of lawyers and rights activists, on the fifth anniversary of a major crackdown.

//Brussels pledged to highlight the "deteriorating situation of civil and political rights in China" including the case of a professor detained after criticising President Xi Jinping over the coronavirus pandemic.

//the EU said it expected China to investigate cases of arbitrary detention and mistreatment of prisoners.

//The United States on Tuesday called for the release of Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Tsinghua University, one of China's top institutions, and one of the rare prominent figures to offer open critiques of Xi, who has clamped down hard on dissent.

//Last week the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned that existing rights must be protected in Hong Kong after police made the first arrests there under China's new national security law.                
Source: WION, (08-Jul)

Further reading:
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”.
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23342
Rejected by the Court to prosecute the Chinese government for concealing the epidemic, a Chinese family member of the deceased is being harassed and under surveillance
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23333

#709MassArrest #HumanRights #EU #NationalSecurityLaw #Xi #XuZhangrun

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Fifth anniversary of 709 Crackdown puts Hong Kong national security law in the spotlight, Chinese and Hong Kong lawyers concerned about future "Hong Kong version 709"

(8 Jul) The fifth anniversary of the "709 Crackdown" in mainland China is approaching. Currently in political asylum in the US, Chinese human rights lawyer, Chen Jiangang, had handled the cases of Xie Yang, Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang and Jiang Tianyong in the 709 incident. Chen was prohibited from leaving China until last year when he was threatened for handling the case of Zhou Yongkang's daughter-in-law, Fiona Huang. He and his family fled to the US that same year in July. Chen pointed out that the Hong Kong national security law should not be viewed from a legal perspective as it is intrinsically not a law. Rather, it represents that "the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can openly push their authority on Hong Kong. This is in their nature."

//the implementation of the Hong Kong national security law was like "sticking a knife" into more than 100 years of Common Law practice and changing it beyond recognition.

//self-censorship is already occurring in Hong Kong. He is concerned that a "'Hong Kong version' of 709 Crackdown may follow."

//under President Xi Jinping, the Administrative Procedure Law and the State Compensation Law were left stranded.

//During the pandemic, the CCP tightly monitored the family members of those deceased from the virus, "If five or more family members of the deceased interacted with each other, they had to be caught."

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Fifth-anniversary-of-709-Crackdown-puts-Hong-Kong-national-security-law-in-the-spotlight-Chinese-and-Hong-Kong-lawyers-concerned-07-17

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#709MassArrest #Lawyer #RuleOfLaw #NationalSecurityLaw #Coronavirus