China: human rights lawyer tried for subversion after over a year of pre-trial detention
Event- Country
- China
- Initial Date
- Jun 24, 2020
- Event Description
Human rights lawyer Chen Jiahong (???) (aka Chen Wendan, ???), was put on trial in a closed-door hearing on �inciting subversion� charges at the Yulin City Intermediate Court, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on June 24. It�s unclear whether Mr. Chen had legal representation during the trial, as he had been pressured to fire the lawyers of his choice in March after telling one he had been mistreated in detention. The trial came more than one year after he was taken into custody. The charges against him have been linked to his online speech critical of the government, his condemnation of the abolition of presidential term limits, as well as his pro-democracy views. Mr. Chen had been held at the Yulin City Detention Center.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Violation
- Denial Fair Trial
- Judicial Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Right to fair trial
- HRD
- Media Worker
- Perpetrator-State
- Judiciary
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 38.28067049338002
Longitude: 109.7336479340345
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 24 June 2020, Chen Jiahong, human rights lawyer, was tried for subversion after spending over a year of pre-trial detention and being forced to fire his lawyer by a court in Yulin, China.