China’s Troubled Legal Profession
Far Eastern Economic Review, May 2008
Posted: 25 Mar 2010
Date Written: May 2008
Abstract
The forms of law can still be used against Chinese rights activists far more effectively than they can use the law to support their own causes, because many of these causes represent a political challenge that China’s leadership is unwilling to tolerate. Probably as a consequence of their own early successes, human-rights lawyers have in recent years been subjected to increasing pressures, not only from the police, public prosecution authorities and justice bureaus, but also from the associations supposed to represent their own interests, as this article discussed using the example of Chinese human rights lawyers' deregistration.
Keywords: CHina, human rights defenders, lawyers, bar associations
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