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A coalition of over 60 human rights organizations, bar associations, scholars and Chinese human rights defenders Monday, called out the Chinese Communist Party’s roundup of over 300 human rights lawyers and legal assistant on July 9, 2015—what is known as the “709 crackdown”. In a Monday statement the groups issued the global call for action against China’s renewed crackdown on human rights lawyers to mark “China Human Rights Lawyers Day.”
The statement is the culmination of years of international calls, starting in 2020, in which UN experts stated, “[T]he profession of human rights lawyer has been effectively criminalised in China.” Echoing that, the groups’ statement condemns China’s “abuse of national security, in law and practice, to target human rights lawyers and activists.” Specifically, the statement references China’s reliance upon “subversion of State power” and “inciting subversion” charges in suppressing human rights.
They also raise concern that the national security law is being used to silence so-called dissidents in Hong Kong, with UN experts recently calling for the release of Chow Hang-tung a prominent Chinese lawyer. Recently, Hong Kong offered HK$1 million bounties for the information to aid in the arrest of eight exiled democracy activists, who are accused of violating the National Security Law. In the same vein of suppressing dissidents, over the last month Hong Kong authorities raided the family home of pro-democracy activist Nathan Law, convicted a man for producing a video using a protest song, and arrested five individuals under conspiracy charges based on the National Security Law.
In response to this crackdown in both China and Hong Kong, the groups have called upon the international community to urge the Chinese government to take three core steps. First, the group calls upon China to end its crackdown on lawyers and human rights defenders. In line with this, second, the groups also demand China release all of those held in arbitrary detention. And third, the group asks that China and Hong Kong amend all laws—like Hong Kong’s National Security Law and China’s national security legislation—to bring the countries into compliance with international human rights standards.
The groups’ statement follows evidence of mass Chinese surveillance operations garnered through China’s use of its Hikvision technology systems and genocide perpetrated against the ethnic and religious Uyghur minority group in northwestern China. More recently, the West has begun to uncover secret Chinese police stations, exercising extraterritorial control over Chinese citizens, in both the US and the UK. In response to discoveries like these, the UK recently declared China the biggest security challenge of our age.
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The statement is the culmination of years of international calls, starting in 2020, in which UN experts stated, “[T]he profession of human rights lawyer has been effectively criminalised in China.” Echoing that, the groups’ statement condemns China’s “abuse of national security, in law and practice, to target human rights lawyers and activists.” Specifically, the statement references China’s reliance upon “subversion of State power” and “inciting subversion” charges in suppressing human rights.
They also raise concern that the national security law is being used to silence so-called dissidents in Hong Kong, with UN experts recently calling for the release of Chow Hang-tung a prominent Chinese lawyer. Recently, Hong Kong offered HK$1 million bounties for the information to aid in the arrest of eight exiled democracy activists, who are accused of violating the National Security Law. In the same vein of suppressing dissidents, over the last month Hong Kong authorities raided the family home of pro-democracy activist Nathan Law, convicted a man for producing a video using a protest song, and arrested five individuals under conspiracy charges based on the National Security Law.
In response to this crackdown in both China and Hong Kong, the groups have called upon the international community to urge the Chinese government to take three core steps. First, the group calls upon China to end its crackdown on lawyers and human rights defenders. In line with this, second, the groups also demand China release all of those held in arbitrary detention. And third, the group asks that China and Hong Kong amend all laws—like Hong Kong’s National Security Law and China’s national security legislation—to bring the countries into compliance with international human rights standards.
The groups’ statement follows evidence of mass Chinese surveillance operations garnered through China’s use of its Hikvision technology systems and genocide perpetrated against the ethnic and religious Uyghur minority group in northwestern China. More recently, the West has begun to uncover secret Chinese police stations, exercising extraterritorial control over Chinese citizens, in both the US and the UK. In response to discoveries like these, the UK recently declared China the biggest security challenge of our age.
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