Chinese Christian Lawyer Wang Quanzhang Forced To Take Medication

July 21, 2018 — ICC Note: Chinese Christian Lawyer Wang Quanzhang, jailed for his work defending Christians, political activists, and victims of land grab, is still alive since his disappearance in a 2015 police sweep....

Three Years Since China’s 709 Lawyer Crackdown

July 9, 2018 — ICC Note: Today marks the third anniversary of an intense crackdown on human rights activists and lawyers in China, many of whom are Christians. Since what came to be known...

Chinese Christian Lawyer Jiang Tianyong Force-fed Medication in Jail

June 28, 2018 — ICC Note: Imprisoned Chinese Christian lawyer Jiang Tianyong’s father visited him last week in Henan, reports that his son is being forced to take an “unidentified medicine” in prison which...

Wife, son of Chinese Christian human rights lawyer Zhang Haitao flee China

December 28, 2017 — ICC Note: Prominent Chinese Christian human rights lawyer Zhang Haitao was sentenced to 19-year jail term for “incitement to subvert state power” and spying charges last year. He is a...

Two Years After ‘Disappearance,’ lawyer Wang Quanzhang Denied Visits From Defense Team

December 7, 2017 — ICC Note: Wang Quanzhang, a Chinese Christian human rights lawyer who was detained during a wave of police raids launched in 2015 targeting lawyers, continues to be denied legal service....

Police in China’s Shaanxi Deny Lawyer Gao Zhisheng in Their Custody

November 22, 2017 — ICC Note: Christian lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s whereabouts remain unknown since his latest disappearance around 100 days ago. A human rights activist and a prominent lawyer, Mr. Gao was famous for...

China Continues to Hold and Presumably Torture Nobel Nominee Gao Zhisheng

September 6, 2017 — 09/06/2017 Washington D.C. – Nearly a month has passed since Chinese Christian human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was presumably taken by state security from his home near Shaanxi's Yulin city...

Detained Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang nominated for Dutch Human Rights Tulip award

August 22, 2017 — ICC Note: Chinese Christian human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was nominated for the Dutch government’s 2017 Human Rights Tulip award. His work is seen as courageous and innovative as he...

Chinese Christian human rights lawyer to stand trial

August 22, 2017 — ICC Note: Prominent Christian lawyer Jiang Tianyong, who took on sensitive cases such as defending practitioners of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, disappeared last November while visiting the family...

Chinese Government Tries to Silence Human Rights Lawyer by Taking Him to a Luxury Villa

July 28, 2016 — ICC Note: Given the amount of congressional attention and legal advocacy from the United States that has been provided on behalf of persecuted religious minorities in China in recent years,...

Wife of Chinese Christian Lawyer is Released; Husband and Son Remain Criminally Detained

May 18, 2016 — ICC NOTE: Chinese authorities released a Christian wife of a detained lawyer after the family had been criminally detained in April for "gathering a crowd to disturb social order". Similar...

Lawyers Denied Access to Christian Pastor Imprisoned in China

March 22, 2016 — ICC NOTE: Lawyers for a detained Guizhou province Christian pastor was denied access to their client who remains inside a detention facility on false charges. Originally detained in December 2015...

Supporters of Detained Christian Lawyer Angered by Televised Forced Confession

March 4, 2016 — ICC NOTE: After being paraded on Chinese television to confess to allegedly disrupting social order, Zhang Kai's supporters have become angry and rightly so. The Christian lawyer has been missing...