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Joint statement from The Law Society of England and Wales, International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, Lawyers for Lawyers, Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, The 29 Principles and Asian Lawyers Network (ALN) on the sentencing of Chinese human rights lawyer has #YuWensheng and his wife #XuYan
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Thanks William Yang for the report. So worried about #YuWensheng, #XuYan #XuZhiyong, #DingJiaxi and all the other friends.
“This case will likely deter other human rights activists from trying to meet with foreign diplomats because Yu and Xu were accused of colluding with foreign forces even though they didn’t make it to the scheduled meeting,” Patrick Poon, a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo, told VOA by phone.
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Chinese human rights lawyer #YuWensheng has been sentenced to 3 years imprisonment and his wife #XuYan was sentenced to 1 years and 9 months imprisonment. They were taken away by the Beijing police when they were on their way to meet #JosepBorrellFontelles, EU's High Representatives for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and German Foreign Minister #AnnalenaBaerbock in April 2023
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Asian Lawyers Network (ALN) has cosigned a joint statement with 29 other organizations calling on #China to to immediately release human rights lawyer #YuWensheng and his wife and activist #XuYan. Yu and Xu have been detained for over one year.
https://www.asianlawyers.net/statements/2024-04-14-yu-wensheng-and-xu-yan-joint-statement
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Joint statement by German and French foreign ministries on sentencing of legal scholar #XuZhiyong (14 years in jail) and human rights lawyers #DingJiaxi (12 years in jail) and detention of human rights lawyer #YuWensheng and his wife #XuYan
https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/-/2593742 -
This happened while Annalena Baerbock in Beijing. Can Germany and the world speak up against such human rights violations? Detaining people with offences like "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" simply because of exercising their freedom of expression is simply unacceptable.
https://twitter.com/the29principles/status/1647121406466084864
Urgent alert: Lawyer #YuWensheng and his wife #XuYan were criminally detained on suspicion of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble"....