The ChinaAid Association is a non-profit Christian organization - based in Midland, Texas - with a mission to uncover and reveal the truth about religious persecution in China, focusing especially on the unofficial church. They do this, they explain in their website, by exposing the abuses, encouraging the abused and equipping the saints to advance the kingdom of God throughout China.NGO workers fire lawyers
Distributed by ChinaAid, March 2020 ...
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| Photo: Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch |
The prisoners, Cheng Yuan, Liu Yongze, and Wuge Jianxiong were all personnel of a Hunan-based non-government organization. Because of their work, they were charged with inciting subversion of state power and jailed last year.
Six attorneys represented the three men, but half of them were let go. According to China’s justice department, Cheng fired his two lawyers via a video recording and appointed two lawyers who have allegiance to the government.
Lawyer Wu, Wuge Jianxiong’s father and attorney, said he never received a notice from the authorities when he was fired. He also doubted his son would voluntarily fire him ...
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