13/07/2015
Beijing, EFE – More than a hundred human rights lawyers have been questioned, placed under house arrest or detained since last Thursday in an unprecedented campaign of repression in China, The organization Chinese Human Rights Defenders reports today (CAD).
According to updated data from CHRD, Hong Kong-based organization, five lawyers from the Fengrui law firm, in addition to an employee of this firm, have been arrested.
Another lawyer is under house arrest, a 15 se los ha "llevado la Policía" for unknown reasons and 85 more have been questioned and released, since last Thursday in multiple provinces and regions of the country.
Las autoridades acusan al bufete Fengrui de Pekín de ser "una banda criminal" que "alteró seriamente el orden público", mientras los miembros detenidos de esta firma son sospechosos de "organizar protestas" y "fabricar rumores" on the Internet to influence court decisions.
China's Ministry of Public Security confirmed, In a statement, that the director of the firm, Zhou Shifeng; su asistente Liu Sixin, and lawyers Wang Quangzhang, Huang Liqun, Wang Yu and her husband, Bao Longjun, estaban arrestados por "violar seriamente la ley", without specifying exactly the charges against each of them.
As noted by the official Diario del Pueblo in an article on Sunday, ese Ministerio encabezó una operación para "acabar con una banda criminal que usó el bufete Fengrui como plataforma desde julio de 2012 to draw attention to conflictive cases, alterando seriamente el orden social".
En la "banda" These include the above plus internet activist Wu Gang., que trabajaba en Fengrui y de quien dice que conspiró en numerosas ocasiones en nombre de "la defensa de los derechos, la justicia y el interés público".
También se les acusa de organizar a grupos de peticionarios para alterar el orden a fin de conseguir sus objetivos "con fines ulteriores".
Wu fue arrestado hace una semana acusado de "incitar a la subversión" y "provocar problemas", and his case was being handled by Wang Yu.
"Fengrui es el objetivo de esta campaña, pero también es una advertencia contra toda la comunidad de defensores de derechos humanos después de que su influencia y organización haya crecido", CHRD researcher Frances Eve told Efe.
Eve linked what happened to the approval, ten days ago, of the National Security law, that further shields the leadership of the Communist Party in China and that several NGOs had warned that it could further restrict the freedoms of Chinese society.
From China, Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group (CHRLCG) also highlighted the case of renowned lawyer Sui Muiqing, quien defendió el año pasado a varios de los activistas del movimiento "Nuevo Ciudadano", a civil group that tried to fight corruption by asking leaders to publish their assets and most of whose members ended up in jail.
According to a spokesperson for CHRLCG, Efe, Sui ha sido acusado de "incitar a la subversión del Estado" this weekend, and now he is under house arrest.
