Lan Zhixue

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Lan Zhixue is a Chinese human rights lawyer and activist who co-founded the Institute for a Democratic Society, a non-profit organization whose website proclaims that they are “fair, reasonable and legal; dare to think, speak and act ”. Lan has been involved in advocating several controversial issues and is part of a growing tendency of attorneys to publicly challenge the government and who are being challenged by the government.

In 2009, Lan stated, “We don't care about ourselves, our freedom, or our death. We want to do something for the common people. There are more lawyers like us who are interested in the public, if not as many as we'd like. ”Lan has expressed his view of the unrestrained activism of technology :“ There is an invisible hand trying to neuter the internet . Maybe it's the last tactic they can use if they can't shut down the internet or abolish the Constitution of the People's Republic of China ... But it's like drinking poison to quench your thirst. The flow of history will not go backwards or move at will. "

Notable holdings

Twitter posts

  • Cheng Jianping (also known as Wang Yi ): Cheng posted comments on Twitter that were alleged to have been sarcastic. Since the Chinese government viewed these comments as a disturbance of public order, Lan Zhixue represented their case in 2010. Lan said, "This is ridiculous and a typical case of prison censorship ... people should not be locked in prison for their sarcastic words." Lan appealed to the Henan Province Judicial Bureau and People's Court on Chen's case, seeking hers She was released on parole for medical treatment because Cheng had high blood pressure. Lan asked the government to have Cheng released from the labor camp. Cheng was sentenced to one year in a labor camp for posting a post on Twitter that mocked Chinese protesters who smashed Japanese products during a demonstration , her fiancé told CNN .

Suspected HIV infection

Lan represented plaintiffs in cases where people were suspected of being infected with HIV through blood transfusions . Lan criticized: “The hospitals that caused the problem have no legal responsibility; and the victims receive no compensation. ”13-year-old Song Shaoyang died of AIDS . A few months before his death, his parents found out after a blood test that their son was one of the many alleged victims of a state-organized blood donation program in the 1990s. Both donors and recipients were suspected of being infected with HIV.

20th anniversary protests

  • Tiananmen Square : Human rights lawyers including Lan Zhixue were allegedly persecuted and harassed by local police in the period leading up to the anniversary. Amnesty International received reports of serious harassment from human rights activists, including Lan Zhixue. 2009 marked the 20th anniversary of the Tian'anmen massacre on June 4th. Ceremonies were held all over the world calling on the Chinese regime to reveal the truth of the event. However, the Chinese Communist Party should have used every opportunity to avoid the issue. Several people were reported to have been arrested, detained or monitored, and others appeared to have disappeared.

Charter manifesto

Murder charges

  • Deng Yujiao : A 21-year-old Chinese waitress who stabbed a local officer who tried to rape her. She was convicted of murder, but her sentence was effectively suspended following public outrage because thousands of internet users protested her conviction.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Calumn MacLeod, M ore Chinese are willing to challenge legal system , USA Today, January 14, 2009, accessed August 31, 2017
  2. ↑ Simon Elegant, Lawyers Under the Gu n, TIME, June 5, 2009, accessed August 31, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Michael Sainsbury, China orders Google to block websites , The Australian Business Review, June 22, 2009, accessed August 31, 2017
  4. ↑ a b China sentences woman to labor camp for Twitter post , CNN, November 18, 2010, accessed August 31, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Gu Quinger, Beijing Bans Ceremonies Commemorating 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square , The Epoch Times, June 2, 2009, accessed August 31, 2017
  6. ^ Lindsay Mossman, China: Harassment of activists escalates ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary , Amnesty International. June 10, 2009, accessed August 31, 2017
  7. ↑ Perry Link, China's Charter 08 , The New York Review of Books, January 15, 2009, accessed August 31, 2017
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Lan is the family name here, Zhixue is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Lan, Zhixue
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dissident of the People's Republic of China
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century