China is criticizing the conditions of legal freedom after the “incident 709”

JAKARTA – in a decade from the moment of the greatest oppression of human rights lawyers (HAM) in modern history China, Lawyers and activists say that control over the Communist Party of China (PKC) against the legal profession is becoming more and more strict. This makes work on the protection of human rights almost impossible.

“The legal environment for human rights continues to decline, especially after the parem,” said Ren Kvanniu, a human rights lawyer who was canceled his permission to practice.

“At present, the rule of law in China – especially from the point of view of protecting human rights – has become aggravated to such an extent that it can be almost compared with the era of the cultural revolution,” he continued as cited from KeeperThursday (7/7/2025).

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The cultural revolution was a decade of mass chaos, launched by the old Chinese leader Mao Zedung, in 1966. At that time, judicial institutions were attacked, because “bourgeois” were considered to be on it, and the recently growing judicial system was almost completely delayed.

REN is one of the hundreds of human rights lawyers who were intended after the “709 incident”, the national oppression of lawyers and activists, who began on July 9, 2015.

According to the human rights group and the Government of the United States, about 300 people from the free community of the defense protection movement, known as Vaikan, were aimed at arrests.

Ten of them were sentenced to charges, such as “undermining state power” and sentenced to prison, while dozens of others continued to experience supervision, persecution and review of professional licenses for many years later.

Modern China is never friendly to human rights lawyers. But in the 2000s, when the Internet began to develop, and China was increasingly looking for global recognition, the space for civil society even grew, although now it could hardly be recognized. At that time, the lawyers managed to win a number of victories in the case, starting from the contaminated scandal with milk of the formula to the operation of mining workers.

“It is difficult to say that we are successful, we can only say that the services we provide difficult to pursue certain groups,” said Jiang Tiano, a former 54 -year -old human rights lawyer who, as you know, is engaged in cases of religious and ethnic minorities. For two years, he was imprisoned on charges “incriminate the undermining of state power.”