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...With reporting by Jessie Jiang...
...Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...With reporting by Jessie Jiang / Beijing...
...Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...disbarred lawyers believe they are being punished for taking cases seen as contrary to the interests of the Communist Party. "The domestic-security police tell the Bureau of Justice, 'These lawyers don't listen; they keep doing these kinds of cases,' " says Jiang Tianyong, a Beijing human-rights lawyer. "We say this is what's permitted under the law. But they say we have no right to argue that these defendants aren't guilty. So when it comes time for our annual assessment, our licenses aren't renewed...