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Patrick Poon🎐 潘嘉偉 パトリック．プーン Apr 13, 2025

https://bsky.app/profile/asianlawyersn.bsky.social/post/3lmnzadt4q224

Beijing human rights lawyer #YuWensheng has been detained for two years today (13 April). He’s expected to be released next year. His wife Xu Yan and their son are waiting for him to return home.

Link to Xu Yan’s post on X: https://x.com/xuyan709/status/1911227833420050454?s=46

Asian Lawyers Network (ALN) (@asianlawyersn.bsky.social)

Beijing human rights lawyer #YuWensheng has been detained for two years today (13 April). He’s expected to be released next year. His wife Xu Yan and their son are waiting for him to return home. https://x.com/xuyan709/status/1911227833420050454?s=46

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Patrick Poon🎐 潘嘉偉 パトリック．プーン Nov 4, 2024

Joint statement from The Law Society of England and Wales, International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute, Lawyers for Lawyers, Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, The 29 Principles and Asian Lawyers Network (ALN) on the sentencing of Chinese human rights lawyer has #YuWensheng and his wife #XuYan

Patrick Poon🎐 潘嘉偉 パトリック．プーン Oct 30, 2024

Thanks William Yang for the report. So worried about #YuWensheng, #XuYan #XuZhiyong, #DingJiaxi and all the other friends.

“This case will likely deter other human rights activists from trying to meet with foreign diplomats because Yu and Xu were accused of colluding with foreign forces even though they didn’t make it to the scheduled meeting,” Patrick Poon, a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo, told VOA by phone.

https://www.voanews.com/a/as-china-sentences-prominent-dissidents-others-protest-behind-bars-/7843631.html

As China sentences prominent dissidents, others protest behind bars

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Patrick Poon🎐 潘嘉偉 パトリック．プーン Oct 29, 2024

Chinese human rights lawyer #YuWensheng has been sentenced to 3 years imprisonment and his wife #XuYan was sentenced to 1 years and 9 months imprisonment. They were taken away by the Beijing police when they were on their way to meet #JosepBorrellFontelles, EU's High Representatives for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and German Foreign Minister #AnnalenaBaerbock in April 2023

https://x.com/AsianLawyersN/status/1851144633897926732

Asian Lawyers Network (ALN) (@AsianLawyersN) on X

Chinese human rights lawyer @yuwensheng has been sentenced to 3 years imprisonment and his wife @xuyan709 was sentenced to 1 years and 9 months imprisonment. They were taken away by the Beijing police when they were on their way to meet @JosepBorrellF and @ABaerbock in April 2023

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Patrick Poon🎐 潘嘉偉 パトリック．プーン Apr 15, 2024

Asian Lawyers Network (ALN) has cosigned a joint statement with 29 other organizations calling on #China to to immediately release human rights lawyer #YuWensheng and his wife and activist #XuYan. Yu and Xu have been detained for over one year.

https://www.asianlawyers.net/statements/2024-04-14-yu-wensheng-and-xu-yan-joint-statement

Asian Lawyers Network (ALN) - 2024.04.14 Yu Wensheng and Xu Yan Joint Statement

ALN has cosigned a joint statement with 29 other organizations calling on China to to immediately release human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and activist Xu Yan. You can read the full statement below and a pdf version here. For more information, see the following: EEAS, "China: Statement by the

Patrick Poon🎐 潘嘉偉 パトリック．プーン Apr 21, 2023

Joint statement by German and French foreign ministries on sentencing of legal scholar #XuZhiyong (14 years in jail) and human rights lawyers #DingJiaxi (12 years in jail) and detention of human rights lawyer #YuWensheng and his wife #XuYan
https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/-/2593742

Joint statement by the Federal Foreign Office and the French Foreign Ministry on the sentencing and arrest of a number of human rights defenders in China

We are appalled by the sentencing of human rights defender Xu Zhiyong and lawyer Ding Jiaxi to 14 and 12 years in prison respectively, as well as by the arrest of lawyer and winner of the Franco-German…

German Federal Foreign Office

Patrick Poon🎐 潘嘉偉 パトリック．プーン Apr 15, 2023

This happened while Annalena Baerbock in Beijing. Can Germany and the world speak up against such human rights violations? Detaining people with offences like "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" simply because of exercising their freedom of expression is simply unacceptable.

https://twitter.com/the29principles/status/1647121406466084864
Urgent alert: Lawyer #YuWensheng and his wife #XuYan were criminally detained on suspicion of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble"....

The 29 Principles on Twitter

“Urgent alert: Lawyer @yuwensheng9 and his wife @xuyan709 were criminally detained on suspicion of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble". The CN govt should stop abusing the ambiguous charges and flawed criminal procedures to crack down on human rights lawyers & their families.”

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