Two prominent Chinese advocates for citizen rights and the rule of law in China were tried for subversion this week in what family members said was an opaque legal process designed to conceal from people the plight of the country’s human rights defenders.
Luo Shengchun, Ding’s wife who now lives in the United States, described the process as having taken place in “pitch darkness.” Her husband’s lawyers said they could not provide her additional information about the case. Supporters who tried to attend the trial were thrown out of their hotel rooms in the middle of the night. All Luo received was a text message informing her that the hearing was taking place.“It’s getting ever worse,” she said in an interview.
Under the decade-long tenure of Chinese President Xi Jinping, intolerance for human rights advocacy has grown to the point where even private events can, and these cases, often deemed to touch on national security, increasingly take place almost entirely behind closed doors. “There is no public attention, their families can’t protest, [and] their lawyers can’t mount a good defense,” she said. “How are you going to deliver a fair verdict on this case? It’s just impossible.”
In contrast, the hearing on Wednesday proceeded in almost complete silence. His lawyers, under threat of disbarment, were unable to speak to the press.from fellow Chinese human rights lawyers for Xu’s and Ding’s trials to be open to the public were ignored. The courthouse did not release any statements about the hearings.
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