Word: gongli
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...family, Li and lawyer Zhang Kai were detained by police. Li was chained to a chair and punched, while Zhang, also roughed up during their arrest, was locked in a cage. Their transgression? They were representing the family of Jiang Xiqing, a man who belonged to the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. After a few hours of questioning, the Jiangjin district police released them around midnight. "We were scared, but the people [we represented] were even more scared," says Li. "So we went back the next...
...sensitive cases these lawyers have handled include illegal land seizures, representing victims of faulty products, like in last year's tainted-milk scandal, defending Tibetans accused of agitating for independence and, as in Li's case, defending followers of Falun Gong. "Lawyers no longer serve only as instruments of political control like how they were expected to perform from the 1950s to the 1970s," says Albert Ho, a Hong Kong solicitor and chairman of China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group. "With the opening and liberalization of China, it needs to build a system of law and a sound legal system...
...prominent human-rights attorney, Gao Zhisheng, disappeared in February, shortly after his family fled to exile in the U.S. He is believed to be in police custody. Gao, who had defended underground Christians and Falun Gong members, released an open letter describing the extensive and grotesque torture he had been subjected to by state security officers in 2007. He said he was threatened with death if he ever revealed the details of the abuse he suffered. When asked about his case in March, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Gao was not a victim of political persecution and his case...
...House administrators, including incoming Pforzheimer House Master Nicholas A. Christakis, said they were concerned that the potential cut, coupled with the closing of the Quad library next year, would disproportionately af“The decision to shut down the Quad library was shocking,” said Jen J. Gong ’12, who will live in Cabot House next year. “That, combined with the scaling-back of the shuttle service, was worrisome.” However, Gong said that she felt the College administration has been receptive to her and other students’ concerns...
China has $2 trillion in U.S. debt. Do you think at some point these countries are just gong to say, "We're done? We're not going to keep underwriting your debt?" If so, what happens then...