Uploaded May 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Several prominent Chinese rights lawyers were beaten and detained as they tried to visit a "black jail" on Monday.
Li Heping, a rights lawyer from Beijing, told Radio Free Asia he was on the phone with one of the lawyers, Tang Tianhao, while security guards from the unofficial detention center attacked them. Li said the group also included rights lawyers Tang Jitian and Jiang Tianyong.
Li said the lawyers were trying to visit the Ziyang Municipal Legal Education Center in Ziyang City in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The center was reportedly set up to detain followers of the spiritual group Falun Gong, which has been persecuted in China since 1999. Li said the center was holding several hundred people there illegally.
Li Fangping, another rights lawyer from Beijing, said lawyers in China have been attacked and beaten by authorities more frequently.
In the past two years, Chinese lawyers have been banned from representing certain clients and risk prosecution for subversion for defending sensitive cases.
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Several prominent Chinese rights lawyers were beaten and detained as they tried to visit a "black jail" on Monday.
Li Heping, a rights lawyer from Beijing, told Radio Free Asia he was on the phone with one of the lawyers, Tang Tianhao, while security guards from the unofficial detention center attacked them. Li said the group also included rights lawyers Tang Jitian and Jiang Tianyong.
Li said the lawyers were trying to visit the Ziyang Municipal Legal Education Center in Ziyang City in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The center was reportedly set up to detain followers of the spiritual group Falun Gong, which has been persecuted in China since 1999. Li said the center was holding several hundred people there illegally.
Li Fangping, another rights lawyer from Beijing, said lawyers in China have been attacked and beaten by authorities more frequently.
In the past two years, Chinese lawyers have been banned from representing certain clients and risk prosecution for subversion for defending sensitive cases.
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