Chinese officials have informed two Chinese lawyers who helped Hong Kong democratic activists who were sentenced to smuggling from Hong Kong to Taiwan that they would be disqualified, saying the lawyers were "unjustified persecution." It is repulsing as.
Two people, known as human rights attorneys in China, have been notified of disqualification.
The two were asked by a family member, including a Hong Kong democratic activist and student, who were sentenced to prison in a Chinese court on December 30 for attempting to stowaway from Hong Kong to Taiwan by ship, and were defended and detained in court. I was looking for an interview at the place.
At the trial, the two were not allowed to defend themselves, but the Chinese judiciary said that the reason for the disqualification was the content of the trial they had been in charge of in the past and the posting on the Internet. The image of the lawyer has been significantly damaged. "
On the other hand, the attorney at law told NHK's telephone interview that the pressure from the Chinese authorities had increased further from around October last year after receiving a request from his family, and he said, "I was involved in this trial. It is clear that this was a problem. It was an unjustified persecution of lawyers under the provisions of an unlikely law. "