Joint statement on the sixth anniversary of the ‘709 Crackdown’

Today, 9 July 2021, we, the undersigned organizations, take the opportunity to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the crackdown on Chinese lawyers and human rights defenders which occurred in the People’s Republic of China on 9 July 2015. On that date, an estimated 300 lawyers and human rights defenders were arrested, summoned or briefly detained … Continue reading Joint statement on the sixth anniversary of the ‘709 Crackdown’