Chinese government wages campaign of harassment against lawyers

Tuesday 5 April 2011 Chinese lawyers are being detained and pressured to stop defending those rounded up in connection with 'Jasmine' protests. The Chinese government is waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation of lawyers, to stop them defending the dozens of activists and political critics rounded up by the authorities in the last two months.Since an anonymous online call on 17 February to stage a ‘Jasmine Revolution’ in China, a group of high profile human rights lawyers have been detained, and at least a dozen more lawyers say they have been briefly detained, pressured by the…

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