"In the past year, the Communist party has tightened its grip on China’slegal system and reminded lawyers that the party controls the country’s courts.
The tiny number of Chinese lawyers who try to use the legal system to highlight abuses of power or defend activists and religious groups have found themselves increasingly targeted in the past year, according to Amnesty International.
“Intimidation, harassment, violence, arbitrary detention were all increasingly used against lawyers and their families in 2010. Such acts are carried out in more and more blatant ways, with officials abandoning even the pretence of obeying the law,” said the Amnesty report.
The report came on the eve of the 90th anniversary of the Communist party, ahead of which cadres have tightly censored any dissent.
Amnesty also said the government had suspended or revoked lawyers’ licences to stop them from taking on sensitive cases. Amnesty has counted 30 lawyers who have had their right to practice stripped from them since 2008"...............READ MORE
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