CommieChinks "Disbar" HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS! No Stopping the Thugs and Goons!
Lykmi Pusi
The more people walk, the wider the road will become.
I will fight until I'm beaten to death."
-- Li Jinsong, Human Rights Advocate In Beijing
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"Human Rights Lawyers 'Disbarred' by Paperwork"
"Chinese Officials Decline to Renew Annual Licenses"
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, June 26, 2009
BEIJING -- In the five years since it was founded, the Yitong Law Firm
has established itself as one of the country's fiercest human rights
advocates. It represented Hu Jia, the dissident who spoke out against
the Tiananmen Square crackdown and on behalf of HIV/AIDS patients;
Chen Guangcheng, the blind activist who exposed forced abortions; and
hundreds of others its lawyers felt had been wrongly imprisoned.
Its success rate isn't stellar -- it has won at most 60 percent of its
cases. But in a country where rule of law is still a work in progress
and calling for democracy is often treated as a crime against the
state, Yitong and other human rights firms have spoken out for people
who otherwise would have been silenced.
Those days may be over.
Since the beginning of 2009 -- a sensitive year filled with
anniversaries of uprisings -- the Chinese government has been forcing
human rights law firms such as Yitong to shut down.
Formally, there is no crackdown; no police are swooping in to seize
files or send attorneys en masse to labor camps. Instead, Beijing is
simply using its administrative procedures for licensing lawyers and
law firms, declining to renew the annual registrations, which expired
May 31, of those it deems troublemakers. Human rights groups say
dozens of China's best defense attorneys have effectively been
disbarred.
"It's a collective strike," said Cheung Yiuleung, a leader of the
China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, an advocacy organization
based in Hong Kong. "Compared with individual warnings, the annual
check of licenses is more effective. . . . It has had a frightening
effect on all lawyers on the mainland."
A few prominent lawyers have met with even harsher treatment. One has
gone missing: Gao Zhisheng -- who defended religious minorities such
as members of Falun Gong and underground Christians, was a nominee for
last year's Nobel Peace Prize and whose family fled China and sought
asylum in the United States in March -- was taken by security agents
from his home in Shaanxi province Feb. 4 and has not been heard from
since.
Several lawyers say they have been beaten en route to meetings with
clients in human rights cases. Others have been detained, questioned,
put under house arrest for days or weeks and told they must be
accompanied by police escorts whenever they leave their homes.
In late May, 17 human rights attorneys whose licenses have been
suspended signed an open letter saying authorities are engaging in the
"full-scale repression of rights" of defense lawyers "to an
unprecedented degree."
With high unemployment from factory closings due to the global
economic crisis, China's leaders have expressed concern that the
sporadic outbreaks of social unrest in recent months might spread, and
they have sought to keep those who might stir up dissent, such as
human rights lawyers, under tight rein.
Their concerns are compounded by this year's significant dates: the
50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising that led to the Dalai Lama's
flight to India, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square
massacre, and the first anniversary of protests over the shoddy
construction that caused many deaths in last year's Sichuan province
earthquake.
Attorneys whose licenses have not been renewed as of this month
include Li Xiongbing, who represented victims of contaminated infant
formula against the manufacturer Sanlu; Li Chunfu, who has been
working on two cases involving wrongful death while in custody; and
Wang Yaiun, who fought for the rights of migrant workers who left the
countryside to work in urban factories.
Jiang Tianyong, an attorney with the firm Beijing Globe-Law who
represents the parent of a child who died during the Sichuan
earthquake and Tibetan monks arrested during last year's riots, said
he had been warned last year not to take those cases. Representatives
of the government's legal affairs bureau came "to talk to me and try
to persuade me not to do it. I said, 'Since the law doesn't forbid me,
why can't I do that?' "
Because "I don't listen to them and am not controlled," Jiang said, he
was not entirely surprised when he learned this month that the renewal
of his annual license, typically a formality, had been denied. He said
he has been talking to other lawyers in his situation about starting a
new, nongovernmental organization or advocacy group so they can
continue to help those in need.
Not everyone is as unwavering under government pressure.
Wei Liangyue, head of the Jiaodian Law Firm in the northeastern city
of Harbin, said this year was the first time in 21 years his license
has not been renewed. In addition, he said, he was detained by police
from March 1 to 30, and although he was not given any explanation in
writing, he was told he was being punished for taking on Falun Gong
clients.
"When I accepted these cases, I already expected the risks. I made my
decision for intuitive knowledge and fairness. My decision is right,"
Wei said. However, he continued, "in the future, I might not touch
sensitive cases like this."
Tang Jitian of the Beijing Anhui Law Firm said that the license issue
has caused a rift in his office, where some of the lawyers handle
human rights cases and others work on less sensitive issues.
"Some lawyers understand us and support us. But some lawyers told the
head of the law firm that either we leave or they leave," said Tang,
whose license was not renewed and who was detained by police from June
3 to 7 in the basement of a Beijing hotel.
In Yitong's case, managing partner Li Jinsong said authorities ordered
the law firm to close for six months starting in mid-March because it
employed a lawyer who was not properly licensed. Li called the charge
absurd, saying the lawyer held a valid license to practice in another
Chinese city and had filed an application to transfer it to Beijing,
where the firm is based. Moreover, the penalty -- shutting down the
entire firm -- is "100 percent illegal," Li said.
Yitong has appealed the ruling, but it has already had a devastating
effect. The firm once attracted some of China's top legal talent --
idealistic men and women in their 30s and 40s, many of whom followed
other legal career paths but switched to human rights advocacy because
they wanted to make a difference in Chinese society. But now, of the
more than 20 attorneys who once worked at its offices, only five are
left. The others, concerned about their ability to support their
families, took jobs at less controversial firms.
"As a law firm, we must make money. But since we have closed for more
than three months, I don't even know if Yitong will still exist," Li
said. "I am not sure if we will still have enough money to pay the
rent."
Still, Li said he remains determined to take on human rights cases and
is hopeful that in the future, lawyers will be able to operate more
freely.
"There has to be someone who continues walking on this road. The more
people walk, the wider the road will become," he said. "I will fight
until I'm beaten to death."
[Researchers Zhang Jie and Liu Liu contributed to this report.]
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"China Trade Helps Shield N. Korea"
"Cash Aids Military, May Offset Sanctions"
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, June 27, 2009
SEOUL -- Behaving badly hasn't hurt the bottom line in North Korea.
Thanks to China, foreign trade has soared since Kim Jong Il's
government began detonating nuclear bombs nearly three years ago.
As U.N. sanctions mount and business between the two Koreas fizzles,
North Korea's trade with China is setting new records. It rose 41
percent last year, while China's share of the North's overseas trade
mushroomed to 73 percent.
In recent months, exceptional eruptions of North Korean belligerence
have been attributed to the murky logic of hereditary succession as
Kim, ailing since he had a stroke last year, positions his third son
to take command of the communist country.
Kim Jong Un is just 26, and many analysts have explained the North's
missile launches, a second nuclear test in May and repeated threats of
"merciless war" as a way of cementing the young man's credibility as a
fearsome and deserving heir.
While that may be true -- and few outsiders really know what's up in
Pyongyang -- there is another way to understand the North's
willingness to antagonize much of the world: Chinese buyers of North
Korean minerals don't seem to mind.
Increasingly, revenue from these buyers is going directly to the North
Korean military, which has taken control of exports of coal, metals
and other key economic sectors, according to the Seoul-based Institute
for Far Eastern Studies.
By funneling hard currency to the military, Chinese enterprises seem
to be insulating the confrontational core of Kim's government from the
international consequences of its behavior. "To the extent that these
transactions are increasingly controlled by government entities,
particularly the military, North Korea's response to sanctions and
diplomatic concerns are almost surely diminished," said Marcus Noland,
a North Korea expert at the Washington-based Peterson Institute for
International Economics.
Japan, South Korea and the United States, the most outspoken champions
of using sanctions to change North Korean behavior, are painfully
aware of China's growing trade. "If China continues business as usual
with the North Koreans, they won't feel any pain," said a senior
official in Japan's Foreign Ministry.
U.S. leverage with China is complicated by its own money problems.
While China is North Korea's main patron, it is also the U.S.
government's largest creditor, holding as much as $800 billion in U.S.
Treasury bonds.
In Pyongyang, meanwhile, the metals industry has become "the mainstay
of our independent socialist economy," Kim's government declared in a
New Year's Day statement, which also emphasized the "military first"
priority of all government actions.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, North Korea's primary mineral
exports to China are coal for smelting, iron ore, zinc, lead and
magnesite, which is essential for making lightweight metals for
electronics.
As North Korea's trade with China grows, so does the hostility of
Kim's government toward homegrown free-market reform.
"The leadership has reverted to a more control-oriented -- even
Stalinist -- approach to economic policy," Nolan and Stephan Haggard
wrote in a paper published this month.
In the aftermath of a famine in the 1990s that killed perhaps a
million people, the number and importance of private markets rose in
North Korea. The government, overwhelmed and substantially crippled by
the famine, had no choice but to allow markets to replace its
collapsed food distribution system. By some outside estimates, markets
now account for about 80 percent of household income and have become
the primary means for most people to obtain food.
But since 2005, as trade with China has revived the state's capacity
for control, the government has imposed increasing restrictions on
what can be sold in private markets and who can sell it. It has also
cracked down on border crossings into China, dramatically reducing the
number of small traders who can move between the two countries,
according to human rights groups.
Since North Korea detonated its second nuclear bomb in May, China has
been unusually critical of the North. It joined other members of the
U.N. Security Council in approving sanctions that for the first time
call on states to seize banned weapons and technology from the North
found aboard ships on the high seas. But China, along with Russia,
insisted that the sanctions could not authorize the use of military
action to enforce any seizure that a North Korean vessel might resist.
It also insisted on a continued right to sell small arms to North
Korea.
After a meeting in Beijing on Wednesday with visiting Pentagon
officials, a senior Chinese military officer said North Korea is a
"serious concern" for China. But Lt. Gen. Ma Xiaotian announced no new
measures to change the North's behavior.
China's economic influence over North Korea has probably never been
greater. It has increased with China's growing share of overall trade
and with a sharp rise in the North's trade deficit with China, which
has jumped nearly sixfold since 2004. In addition, about 90 percent of
North Korea's energy imports come from China.
"China could close down North Korea's formal economy," said Lim Eul-
chul, a researcher who specializes in North Korean trade for the
Institute for Far Eastern Studies.
Still, China, at least publicly, has shown little interest in using
its trading leverage to rein in North Korea's behavior.
As China's economic tentacles inside North Korea grow, those of South
Korea, Japan and the United States are fast withering.
After declining throughout last year, South Korea's trade with the
North fell 25 percent in the first four months of this year. Japan has
imposed new sanctions that will cut its already minimal trade to
nearly zero. The United States has been the single largest donor of
food aid to North Korea since the famine years, and last year it
signed an agreement with Pyongyang to supply 500,000 tons of food aid.
But North Korea later canceled the aid agreement, in part because it
did not want foreign-born Korean speakers to supervise where the food
was distributed.
Widespread food shortages, however, have not gone away.
About 37 percent of the population will require food assistance this
year, according to a U.N. assessment. Aid officials agree that North
Korea's trade with China has done little to alleviate chronic hunger,
especially among those considered disloyal to the government.
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TFK
judgemental way, but conduct ie riding CCP dicks.
duh !!!!!!!!!!!!
"rst9" <rst9...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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rst9
> my comment is not racist - no comment associated with race or ethnicity in a
> judgemental way, but conduct ie riding CCP dicks.
>
> duh !!!!!!!!!!!!
What business is that of yours how the CCP or China conduct its own
internal affairs? What rights do you have to criticize them how they
maintain their country? You are nothing but a racist pig!!!
TFK
are revealed as a racist yourself.
china has signed up to a number of int accords and hence has submitted
itself to be accountable to acceptable norms - which it does not meet.
It has the arrogance to claim 5000 years of history which is factualy
incorrect, it even teachs independent evolution of the "Chinese race" - a
lie and inherently racist, it cliams to be a nation with rule of law which
is a gross lie, it was in breach of promises made in applying to host the
Olympics (seeing gymnats cheatin and following IOC whitewash), it is the
world leader in fake goods and IP theft, it has bogus territoral a claims i
the S. china Sea, it points missles at a functionaing democracy and
threatens annihilation, it practices state run organ harvesting (even Nazis
did not do that), it claims peaceful rise yet invded vietnam i 1979,
forceably annexex islansds in spratelys, invaded S Korea, no to mention
Tibet. E turkestan, supplied weapons to the taliban, is the source of N
?Koreas nuclear program and hence nuclear proliferation etc etc ETC
China still has an imperialistic mentality, is in its essence xenophobic,
racist and a alst remaining empire and coloniser with a good measure of
Orwellian designs (se internet censorship) - FACISM with CHINESE
CAHARATERISTICS
nothing racist there CCP dick rider - stop the conuct than no foul
"rst9" <rst9...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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abia...@my-deja.com
Nazi’s Holocaust never happened. Everyone here refuted you. No wonder
BM said you are crazier than he had previously thought. You are CRAZY!
Rusty Old Fool (rst9 or rst0wxyz), your Maoism is dead, China has
revitalized Confucianism, your so-called "Great Man" Mao has become a
failed man. No one except you follows your failed man Mao as an
example.
Tienxia
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/ca085dc133ad3cae?hl=en
Abianchen is a fraud!
On Jun 30, 5:49 am, "abianc...@my-deja.com" <abianc...@my-deja.com>
wrote:
> > maintain their country? You are nothing but a racist pig!!!- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
TFK
facists running the fake empire now.
Can hardly deny their "mandate of history" can they CCP bum boy
<abia...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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abia...@my-deja.com
CCP themselves. But Maoism is dead when DXP announced "reform and
openness" in late 70s, CCP has given up Maoism and adopted markert
economy. And last several years, CCP has revitalized Confucianism. So
CCP thugs like Rusty Old Fool is so desperated now, his "great man"
has become a failed man. Now he is worshipping another crazy man,
Iranian President!!!
Anyway, Rusty Old Fool denied the Holocaust ever happened. He is CRAZY
and should be in mental hospital for treatment.
On Jun 30, 7:02 am, "TFK" <tfkmjk6...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe not but the old pedophiles corpse is still worshipped by the chicom
> facists running the fake empire now.
>
> Can hardly deny their "mandate of history" can they CCP bum boy
>
> <abianc...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> news:ed94d1dd-54eb-465c...@k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> Rusty Old Fool (rst9 or rst0wxyz), tell us if you still insist that
> Nazi’s Holocaust never happened. Everyone here refuted you. No wonder
> BM said you are crazier than he had previously thought. You are CRAZY!
>
> Rusty Old Fool (rst9 or rst0wxyz), your Maoism is dead, China has
> revitalized Confucianism, your so-called "Great Man" Mao has become a
> failed man. No one except you follows your failed man Mao as an
> example.
>
> On Jun 28, 12:16 am, rst9 <rst9w...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Jun 27, 4:00 pm, "TFK" <tfkmjk6...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > my comment is not racist - no comment associated with race or ethnicity
> > > in a
> > > judgemental way, but conduct ie riding CCP dicks.
>
> > > duh !!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> > What business is that of yours how the CCP or China conduct its own
> > internal affairs? What rights do you have to criticize them how they
anti-StupidAbianchenVirus
were born, Shit Head!
On Jun 30, 4:02 am, "TFK" <tfkmjk6...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe not but the old pedophiles corpse is still worshipped by the chicom
> facists running the fake empire now.
>
> Can hardly deny their "mandate of history" can they CCP bum boy
>
> <abianc...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
>
> news:ed94d1dd-54eb-465c...@k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> Rusty Old Fool (rst9 or rst0wxyz), tell us if you still insist that
> Nazi’s Holocaust never happened. Everyone here refuted you. No wonder
> BM said you are crazier than he had previously thought. You are CRAZY!
>
> Rusty Old Fool (rst9 or rst0wxyz), your Maoism is dead, China has
> revitalized Confucianism, your so-called "Great Man" Mao has become a
> failed man. No one except you follows your failed man Mao as an
> example.
>
> On Jun 28, 12:16 am, rst9 <rst9w...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Jun 27, 4:00 pm, "TFK" <tfkmjk6...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > my comment is not racist - no comment associated with race or ethnicity
> > > in a
> > > judgemental way, but conduct ie riding CCP dicks.
>
> > > duh !!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> > What business is that of yours how the CCP or China conduct its own
> > internal affairs? What rights do you have to criticize them how they
rst9
The holocaust was a myth created by the Jews to gain world sympathy.
Confucius was a failure in life, a failure as a man, a failed
politician no one wanted to listen.
Mao's picture is hung in front of Tiananmen Square!!
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