The China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group (CHRLCG) cordially invites you to the occasion of the launching of its 2 latest publications, Report on the 709 Crackdown; and Missing: Human Rights Activists in China & the Disappeared Justice.
Both publications are done in commemoration of the first anniversary of the 709 crackdown of lawyers and activists in China. Unprecedented in its scale and its maneuvers, the 709 crackdown has generally been seen as the unfolding of a new phase of repression of the civil society in China, with the use of both legal and extra-legal means.
Though in separate copies, the two publications are complementary to each other. The reading of both will allow us the understanding of rights lawyers both as members to a professional community and as individual citizens as beloved wives, husbands, sons and daughters, while striving for a society of justice and rights protection.
While the Report on the 709 Crackdown traces the course of events over the year past, it also provides an analytical account of the background as well as the issues of concern on legal irregularities implicated in the measures used by the authorities which, as the CHRLCG has observed, are forming new tendency of tactics and strategies of attacks by the authorities.
The book Missing: Human Rights Activists in China & the Disappeared Justice is a collection of images and writings either by the lawyers and or their family members after the crackdown. Through them, we shall learn about the many other facets of human rights lawyers that have never been publicly disclosed before, and through them, we shall learn how their family members have overcome their pain and sense of helplessness after the detention of their loved ones to regain the strength, courage and composure with which they become rights defenders in the forefront.
CHRLCG will take the occasion to update audience on the crackdowns and respective issues of concerns for follow-up.
Date/ Time: Tuesday 5 July 2016 / 15:00-16:30
Venue: Hughes Room at FCC, 2 Lower Albert Road, Central (+852 2521 1511)
Speakers: Mr. Yiu-Leung Cheung,[1] Vice Chairperson, CHRLCG
Ms. Kit Chan, Executive Director, CHRLCG
For Enquiry: Raphael Leung (+852 9665 9259)
