Without a doubt the best forum on what has been happening to lawyers who engendered the ire of Beijing and on many occasions for the most spurious reasons both on the mainland and in Hong Kong.
There is the IAPL ( where this report is sourced) but CHRLG was we feel the most reliable and also unapologetically forthright group defending lawyers rights
We presume nobody will now fill their shoes leaving authorities both in Beijing and HK with free reign to do what they like to lawyers without fear of events being reported until months later, if at all
More than sad.
Here are some photos to prove that the organisation once existed before they all mysteriously disappear from google search.
- China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group says it will dissolve this month and has already started voluntary liquidation procedure
- But the group does not say what information police were seeking or whether it complied with the request
A Hong Kong group founded to support human rights lawyers in mainland China has announced it will disband, a decision coinciding with a deadline for the organisation to provide police with information requested on national security grounds.
The China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group will be the latest in a run of Hong Kong civic bodies to dissolve following Beijing’s imposition of a national security law on the city last year.
Two prominent opposition-leaning bodies – the Professional Teachers’ Union and the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions – have ceased operations in the past month amid warnings from authorities and attacks from pro-Beijing mouthpieces over alleged national security violations.
The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which organises the city’s annual candlelight vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, is also set to vote on its disbandment on Saturday.
Hong Kong’s national security police last month wrote to the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group demanding its leaders submit relevant information as requested.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, also the deadline for submission, the group said it had decided to disband and had already replied to the force’s letter of inquiry dated August 25.
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https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/group-09212021150247.html
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1610339-20210913.htm
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/lawyer-torture-09212021083912.html
