Originally published by Reuters on September 22, 2016 A Chinese court on Thursday jailed a prominent civil rights lawyer for 12 years on fraud charges, his lawyer said, a punishment rights advocates called retaliation for his defence of high-profile clients who had challenged the government. Xia Lin, detained by Beijing police (read more…)
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Originally published by The Atlantic on September 22, 2016 Xia Lin, a human-rights lawyer whose clients include Ai Weiwei, the famed Chinese dissident, was sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Beijing court Thursday on fraud charges, the BBC reports. The 46-year-old, known for defending human-rights activists, was first detained (read more…)
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Originally published by EL PAIS on September 22, 2016 El abogado defensor de los derechos humanos Xia Lin, célebre por haber representado al artista Ai Weiwei y a otros destacados activistas, recibió este jueves en Pekín una sentencia de 12 años de cárcel, en un nuevo y duro golpe del régimen (read more…)
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Originally published by Sky News on September 22, 2016 A human rights lawyer has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a court in China. Xia Lin, whose clients included the famous Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, was jailed by the Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court after earlier being (read more…)
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Originally published by Washington Post on September 22, 2016 BEIJING — A Chinese lawyer who defended activists and others in politically sensitive cases was convicted of fraud and given 12 years in prison Thursday, his lawyers said. It is the harshest sentence to date in the relentless crackdown on China’s legal community. (read more…)
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Originally published by The Guardian on September 22, 2016 Human rights groups have accused Beijing of ramping up its assault on civil rights activists after a respected lawyer was jailed for 12 years on what they claim were trumped-up charges. Xia Lin, a 46-year-old lawyer whose clients have included dissident artist (read more…)
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Originally published by Associate Press on September 22, 2016 BEIJING – A Chinese court has sentenced a lawyer who defended activists and others in sensitive cases to 12 years in prison on fraud charges. Xia Lin was sentenced Thursday by the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court, nearly two years after being (read more…)
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Originally published by DPA International on September 22, 2016 Beijing (dpa) – A Beijing court on Thursday jailed a prominent lawyer for 12 years on fraud charges, the latest verdict in China’s ongoing crackdown on activists and rights lawyers. Xia Lin pled not guilty and his supporters said the case was another (read more…)
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Originally published by HKFP on September 22, 2016 A Xinjiang court has delayed an appeal by writer and activist Zhang Haitao over his 19-year prison sentence. Zhang was jailed in January for “inciting subversion of state power” after writing articles critical of the government. The time limit for handling his case was previously extended until (read more…)
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Originally published by IRIN on September 21, 2016 The world’s strongest storm of the year slammed into China last week, just as the country was recovering from severe flooding that the government said left about 1,000 people dead. In many nations, this would prompt a deluge of donations to disaster response, (read more…)
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Originally published by DPA International on September 1, 2016 Beijing (dpa) – China’s first national charity law came into effect Thursday in a move designed to encourage giving and ease restrictions on domestic charities, while at the same time tighten control of the sector, local media reported. The law relaxes registration (read more…)
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Originally published by Breitbart News on September 9, 2016 Barack Obama held “candid” talks with Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping during the G20 Summit, the White House said Saturday, talks which were said to have briefly touched on the topic of human rights. But that didn’t seem to help China’s (read more…)
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