Jiang Tianyong

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Jiang Tianyong ( Chinese 江天勇 ) (* 1971 in Henan ) is a Chinese lawyer . Tianyong, whose law firm is in Beijing , is a prominent figure in the Weiquan (Legal Defense) movement and has defended Tibetans , petitioners , Falun Gong supporters, HIV / AIDS victims and other vulnerable groups. Jiang's human rights engagement attracted displeasure from the Chinese authorities, and he was arrested several times for this. His requests to renew his license to practice as a lawyer were rejected.

Lawyer

Jiang was in Luoshan (province of Henan born), where he worked as a teacher from 1995 to 2004. In 2004, he finished his teaching post and moved to Beijing to work as a human rights lawyer. He passed his law exam in 2005 and became a partner in the Beijing Global Law Firm along with several other prominent human rights attorneys . Jiang accepted a number of politically sensitive cases, including from petitioners, religious and ethnic minorities. In 2008, Jiang provided legal services to Tibetans faced with charges after the 2008 Tibetan Riots , and was involved with lawyer Li Fangping in the defense of a senior Tibetan cleric. In 2008, Jiang also began advocating for Falun Gong practitioners, and in late 2009 said he had defended nearly 20 practitioners who had been detained for their spiritual practice. Jiang sat for a citizen caused by contaminated and infected blood transfusions or blood donations a HIV suffered infection or of AIDS diseased, and was involved in the representation of victims of the "Black Brick Kiln" case in Shanxi, in which thousands of Chinese ( including children) were forced to work in illegal brick factories and tortured by the operators.

Imprisonments

Jiang was arrested several times by Chinese security officers in response to his human rights defense. In 2008, Jiang was informed that his lawyer license had expired. In 2009, he was one of at least 17 Weiquan lawyers whose application to renew a statutory license was denied. In the same year, Jiang was placed under police surveillance and prevented from leaving his home.

On February 19, 2011, he was one of several lawyers and dissidents who were imprisoned as part of a comprehensive round-up of dissidents, and was detained for two months in detention. In an interview with the South China Morning Post newspaper , Jiang said that he was beaten and ill-treated while in custody. During his detention, the interrogators kicked and hit him several times and forced him to sit motionless for up to 15 hours.

In November 2017, Jiang was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and three years of deprivation of political rights by the Changsha People's Court in central China's Hunan Province . He was accused of "inciting to undermine state authority". In the judgment, the judge said that Jiang had been influenced by "anti-Chinese forces" and that he had developed the idea of ​​"overturning the existing political system." Observers spoke of a "sham trial" and not a fair trial - Jiang had been coerced into a televised confession before the trial began and was unable to freely choose his lawyers. Amnesty International condemned the trial as "hypocritical".

Jiang Tianyong was due to be released from Henan Number Two Prison on February 28, 2019 and has been missing since then. Jiang's wife, Jin Bianling, said that her husband's sister and father, who went to meet the human rights attorney after he was released, also disappeared. Two days after his disappearance, he reappeared and returned to his hometown, but continues to be guarded by the police.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ a b Bill Schiller, Lawyers pay high price for coming to aid of Tibetans , thestar.com, June 17, 2008, accessed November 14, 2016
  4. ↑ a b Gillian Wong, China takes hard line on activists, dozens missing , The Associated Press, March 21, 2011, accessed November 14, 2016
  5. ↑ Frank Wolf, Written Testimony submitted to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on the rule of law in China by Jiang Tianyong, October 29, 2009, accessed November 14, 2016
  6. ↑ a b Chinese Rights Defense Lawyers Under All-out Attack by the Authorities , Human Rights in China, June 4, 2009, accessed November 14, 2016
  7. ↑ Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong freed , BBC News Asia-Pacific, April 20, 2011, accessed November 14, 2016
  8. ↑ Brian Spegele, Not Human: China Activist Lawyer Reveals Details of Detention , The Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2011, accessed November 14, 2016
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  10. ^ Human rights lawyer convicted in China , Frankfurter Allgemeine, November 21, 2017, accessed on November 22, 2017
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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Jiang is the family name here, Tianyong is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Jiang, Tianyong
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 江天勇
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Attorney in the People's Republic of China
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Luoshan