Two Chinese lawyers who represented a member of an outlawed spiritual movement have been banned for life from practicing law -- a penalty they said Saturday is designed to scare other lawyers away from taking on sensitive human rights cases. Sharon Hom, executive director of New York-based Human Rights in China, said in a statement Saturday that the lawyers "withdrew from a show trial in which the judge had made it impossible for them to do their work." The two lawyers plan to appeal.
May 11, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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Two Chinese lawyers who represented a member of an outlawed spiritual movement have been banned for life from practicing law — a penalty they said Saturday is designed to scare other lawyers away from taking on sensitive human rights cases.
Tang Jitian and Liu Wei said during separate telephone interviews that Beijing judicial authorities informed them Friday that they had lost their credentials. The ruling is permanent, but both plan to appeal.
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