Ni Yulan

Ni Yulan (2010)

Ni Yulan ( Chinese  倪玉兰 , Pinyin Ní Yùlán , born March 24, 1960 ) is a Chinese lawyer and civil rights activist . Because of her commitment to the victims of land expropriation, she was arrested several times and sentenced to several years in prison.

Life

Ni Yulan practiced law for 18 years and handled many politically sensitive cases of complaints and protests against the demolition of houses. Before the 2008 Beijing Olympics , she was a victim of expropriation when her home in Beijing was demolished without compensation and subsequently sentenced to two years in prison. She was arrested again on April 7, 2011 in connection with the protests in China . In April 2012, Ni Yulan was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison by the Xicheng People's Court in Beijing for "disturbing and destroying someone else's property." Her husband received a two-year prison sentence in the same trial. Due to physical abuse and inadequate medical care while in police custody in 2002, Ni Yulan is now dependent on a wheelchair.

In March 2016, Ni and 13 other women received the International Women of Courage Award . Ni was unable to travel to the award ceremony attended by US Secretary of State John Kerry because the local authorities did not issue her with a passport. From the Chinese side, the award to Ni was described as a smear campaign against China.

Web links

• 3sat Kulturzeit: China: Indictment against civil rights activist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Stiftung Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen: Political Prisoners Today: Civil Rights Activist and Former Lawyer Ni Yulan ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Last accessed on July 18, 2012.
2. ↑ See China Observer: Police destroy the house of Chinese dissident Ni Yulan in Beijing  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   . Last accessed April 25, 2011.
3. ↑ Cf. Chinese civil rights activist has to go to prison again on Spiegel Online on April 10, 2012
4. ↑ Award to activist 'smears' China in: Global Times , March 31, 2016, p. 3, accessed April 3, 2016

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ni is the family name here, Yulan is the first name.