709 crackdowns

Chinese human rights lawyer Xie Yang was reported missing on Jan. 11. An insider called for the attention of the international community, believing that he was taken by state security ...

July 9 marked the start of Beijing's mass persecution directed at China's human rights lawyers in 2015, called ...

On August 11, Xie Yang, a lawyer who was arrested and tortured in the “709 crackdowns,” a nationwide ...