In lawyer trials, China's courts have done away with pretence of due process

By Philip Wen
Updated August 5 2016 - 10:08pm, first published 9:34pm
Hu Shigen in the dock. He was jailed for seven-and-a-half years. Photo: Weibo
Hu Shigen in the dock. He was jailed for seven-and-a-half years. Photo: Weibo
Zhou Shifeng, director of the Beijing-based Fengrui Law Firm, was sentenced to seven years' jail for subversion.  

 china Photo: Supplied
Zhou Shifeng, director of the Beijing-based Fengrui Law Firm, was sentenced to seven years' jail for subversion. china Photo: Supplied

Tianjin: It was in the spirit of defiant gallows humour that sections of the legal community, amid a sweeping crackdown in July last year, would observe that it wasn't the old story of activists disappearing in China. Now it was their lawyers. And then the lawyers of those lawyers.

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