China: Dark times for lawyers as repression intensifies

30 June 2011 China's efforts to control and suppress human rights lawyers have intensified recently, according to a new Amnesty International report. The Chinese government has unleashed an uncompromising series of measures intended to rein in the legal profession and suppress lawyers pursuing human rights cases, Amnesty International said today. Against the Law – Crackdown on China’s Human Rights Lawyers Deepens details how state efforts to control lawyers have intensified over the last two years – and particularly in recent months.  "Human rights lawyers are subject to escalating silencing…

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