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Human Rights lawyers become heavily suppressed in China

As the June 4th “20th Anniversary” draws closer, the Communist authorities in Mainland China are stepping up efforts to conduct a comprehensive oppression on human rights lawyers. Many human rights lawyers are being abducted and beaten by the authorities while many more rights lawyers have been under pressure from authorities that cancels lawyers’ licenses and delay registration in underhanded ways.
Beijing Human Rights Lawyer Li Jing-Lin told a reporter recently that the law firm he works for applied for suspension of registration on his behalf for the grounds of being unable to get in contact with him merely because he once handled a human rights case.

Lawyer Jiang Tianyong said that he and several other human rights lawyers are now faced with the assessment. He expressed that the nature of the system engaging in the so-called end-of-year assessment is to collect money and to suppress human rights lawyers who act in accordance with the law.

Jiang Tian-Yong said: [recording] “The nature of the assessment is in fact a means to exploit and suppress lawyers. It plays a role in exploitation by extorting 2,500 yuan from each lawyer and every law firm is requested to pay 10,000 yuan. Observing the current situation, almost all who failed the assessment test are rights lawyers. The assessment is clearly an act of suppression.”

Lawyer Li Heping said that the so-called annual assessment registration system is a poor system that only exists in China, and yet it is against the law.

It is reported that the system of the annual inspection for registration was abolished in Mainland China in July 2008, but a multiple provincial judicial administrative department led by Beijing Judiciary Bureau introduced “the annual assessment registration” system in early 2009, which is in effect a continuation of the “Year-end Assessment for Registration System”. At present, there are over 20 rights lawyers facing the unlawful suppression by the regime in delaying and cancelling their registration.

The above news is brought to you by Fu Ming and hosted for Inside China Today on the SOH Radio Network.

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