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Our series highlight the decline of rule of law in Hong Kong.
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#HKFP Chief Justice Cheung added: “How could the court decide whether those missing paragraphs… provide [the commissioner] with reasonable grounds to believe [the Alliance] is a foreign agent? It’s an impossible task.”
‘Impossible task’: Hong Kong’s top judge raises questions over whether Tiananmen vigil activists given fair trial
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The second trial of #HumanRights #lawyer #YuWensheng, who was accused of "Inciting Subversion of State Power," was concluded at 9:30 AM on January 6 at the Suzhou Intermediate People's Court. The appeal was rejected, and the original verdict was upheld.
【人权律师余文生被控“煽颠”案二审维持原判】
据维权网1月6日消息，中国知名人权律师余文生被控“煽动颠覆国家政权”的案件二审，在1月6日上午9点30分于苏州市中级法院宣判，驳回上诉，维持原判。
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#余文生
1/4 🇭🇰#47人案 判決前夕，@the29principles 於此整理事情因果前後，並且進行了簡單的法庭分析。按讀全文👇
29principles.uk/en/node/1993
📣 相片來源：BBC, 2024/5/29
1/5 🇭🇰 On the eve of the verdict in the "47 Defendants’ Case" #HongKong47 @the29principles compiled the sequence of events and conducted a court analysis brief.
👇Full document in English 👇
29principles.uk/en/contents/…
📣Photo credit: BBC, 2024/5/29
2/5 🇭🇰 On June 30, 2020, #HKNSL was quickly passed and directly enacted, containing provisions with vague boundaries and unclear definitions, including charges such as #IncitingSubversionOfStatePower referencing content from the #CriminalLaw of the #CCPChina
1/#HumanRights #Lawyer Yu Wensheng
@yuwensheng9 disclosed the #torture in prison during a 2023 interview with formerly disappeared 🇹🇼 entrepreneur Lee Meng-chu. #RSDL
Photographer: Gong Jiangyu
youtu.be/nrSzl2Iplqk
2/This video was recorded two weeks before
Yu's most recent arrest.
The 🇨🇳 government arrested the human rights lawyer
@yuwensheng9 four times and jailed him three times. In 2023, wife Xu @xuyan709 and Yu were both arrested while en route to meet with a human rights officer.
Lawyer Yu Wensheng disclosed his #torture experience prior to his most recent arrest in 2023. Yu supported the 🇭🇰 #UmbrellaMovement in 2014 and defended cases involving housing demolition, human rights activists, and intellectual property rights in 🇨🇳.
youtu.be/Eoxu3DeSEVQ
In 2014 Yu @yuwensheng9 organised a public protest to criticise the authorities for not allowing him to meet a defendant in a detention facility who voiced support for the #HongKong #UmbrellaMovement . This led to him being arrested in October 2014, enduring a 99-day detention.
📣 2024年中國人權律師獎向兩位獲獎律師 #李昱函 和 #張展 致敬 👇
We are honoured to announce the 2024 #HumanRights #Lawyers #Awards recipients: #LiYuhan #ZhangZhan.
@liyuhan2017 @ChinaChange_org @hrichina @YaxueCao @ZhouFengSuo @patrickpoon
We are honoured to announce the 2024 #HumanRights #Lawyers #Awards recipients: Li Yuhan @liyuhan2017 and Zhang Zhan @consultorzhang.
#ZhangZhan #China #HongKong
@ChinaChange_org @hrichina @chinaaid
@YaxueCao @ZhouFengSuo @patrickpoon
Read the full article of “The 9th Anniversary of 709 Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyers and Defenders: Ten Notable Events Over the Past Year” @ChinaChange_org
chinachange.org/2024/07/01/t…
#709Crackdown Today marks the 9th anniversary of the #crackdown on #China’s human rights #lawyers and #defenders. We asked the lawyers and their families,
"how have your nine years been?"
@ChinaChange_org @chinaaid @hrichina @ISHR_chinese @CHRDnet
youtu.be/vDcjV76O4tg
Come and join us for the 8th Human Rights Lawyers Day. This event will include an award ceremony for human rights lawyers and a documentary screening of “She’s in Jail.”
#709Crackdown #HumanRights #Lawyers
@chinaaid @hrichina @YaxueCao @ZhouFengSuo
@AmnestyUK
1/On the 1000th day of the barrister and activist #ChowHangTung’s arrest, we urge the Hong Kong SAR government to immediately release Chow and all #humanrightsdefenders.
2/In 2023, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention investigated and concluded that Chow’s arrest was arbitrary and contrary to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights #ICCPR, which is binding upon Hong Kong SAR.
1/On the 1000th day of the barrister and activist #ChowHangTung’s arrest, we urge the #HongKongSAR #Government to immediately release Chow and all #HumanRightsDefenders.
2/In 2023, the #UN #WorkingGroupOnArbitraryDetention investigated and concluded that Chow’s arrest was arbitrary and contrary to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights #ICCPR, which is binding upon Hong Kong SAR.
STATEMENT ON THE 35TH COMMEMORATION OF TIANANMEN MASSACRE
"The recent arrests under National Security Laws, including the Basic Law Article 23 in Hong Kong, mark the 1,000th day of the arbitrary detention of human rights lawyer Chow Hang Tung."
[心理健康更新] 這是少有針對政治暴力創傷和療癒的實際服務的一本中文書。助人工作者固然可以從台灣近年的經驗裡得到啟發，受壓迫者與親友也能增加對政治暴力創傷及療癒的理解。看到許多在白色恐怖時期的受難者的經歷，就更加認知到，在歷史的洪流裡，面對相似的經歷、有著相似心境的，遠遠不止一個。
這條捍衛人權的路上，我們並非孤單的。就讓我們一齊面對！
下載電子書：dep.mohw.gov.tw/DOMHAOH/cp-6…
更多心理健康資源：29principles.uk/zh-hant/MHRE
#政治暴力創傷 #心理健康 #精神健康 #情緒 #心理治療 #mentalhealth #trauma #wellbeing
Human rights activist Yang Maodong (#GuoFeixiong) faces severe health issues during a hunger strike in Sihui Prison, Guangdong. Sentenced to 8 years, he now weighs 41.5 kg, suffers from high fevers, and requires nasal feeding. Urgent global attention needed. #HumanRights #Lawyer
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#ZhangZhan, a Chinese citizen journalist who is also a former lawyer, was sentenced to four years for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles” as she reported the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in Wuhan in 2020, will complete her sentence on May 13.
Qin Weijin, Guangxi lawyer, was arrested on Apr 20 at 4pm by Liuzhou police on charges of "picking quarrels & provoking trouble". Initially accused of "inciting ethnic hatred", the charge was changed. He's detained at Liuzhou's Second Detention Center. #China #Lawyer #QinWeijin
