Wang Yu (lawyer)

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Wang.
Wang Yu
Born (1971-05-01) 1 May 1971 (age 53)
NationalityChinese
OccupationHuman rights lawyer
SpouseBao Longjun

Wang Yu (

life sentence. She was awarded an International Women of Courage Award
in 2021.

Wang Yu
Hanyu Pinyin
Wáng Yǔ

Career

Wang is a lawyer with the Fengrui law firm in Beijing. That law firm has been targeted by the government in its crackdown, which arrested two lawyers and one intern there in addition to Wang and her husband, Bao Longjun.[1] Late in 2016, Chinese authorities released Wang Yu on bail after she was almost certainly coerced to give a televised confession in which she denounced her colleagues and suggested that her human rights work was the result of foreign activists out to smear China. “I won't be used by them anymore,” Ms. Wang said in a video published on a Communist Party news site. Her confession followed a pattern similar to those given to Chinese authorities by other lawyers, publishers and human rights activists. Friends said that although released from detention, Wang would still remain under surveillance by Chinese authorities for years and would not be free to come and go as she pleases.[2]

Before her conversion to a human rights lawyer, Wang Yu was a business and commercial lawyer until an incident at a

tortured. When she was released in 2011, her conversion to a human rights lawyer was complete.[3]

Since then, she became part of China's

Feminist Five",[4] activist Ye Haiyan, and the banned Falun Gong spiritual group. It was her use of social media to champion her causes that eventually led to her arrest on the subversion charges. In 2015, the government's Xinhua News Agency published a piece designed to tarnish her reputation, saying, "This arrogant woman with a criminal record turned overnight to a lawyer, blabbering about the rule of law, human rights, and justice, and roaming around under the flag of 'rights defense.'"[3]

Wang Yu's human rights work is highlighted in the 2016 documentary directed by

independence of the judiciary and the legal profession and observe fair trial and due process standards—all principles guaranteed under Chinese and international law and critical to sustaining progress toward rule of law,” said ABA President Paulette Brown.[8]

On

First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden.[9] After the award ceremony all of the fourteen awardees were able to take part in a virtual exchange as part an International Visitor Leadership Program. Unusually another seven women were included in the awards who had died in Afghanistan.[10]

References

  1. ^ Buckley, Chris (13 January 2016). "China Arrests Rights Lawyer and Her Husband on Subversion Charges". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 25 November 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  2. ^ Hernandez, Javier C. (1 Aug 2016). "China Frees Wang Yu, Human Rights Lawyer, After Videotaped Confession". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 25 November 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  3. ^ a b Fifield, Anna (18 July 2015). "She was a quiet commercial lawyer. Then China turned against her". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 10 November 2015. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  4. Li Maizi), Wu Rongrong, Wang Man and Zheng Churan (Datu
    )
  5. ^ "URGENT ACTION". Hooligan Sparrow. Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  6. ^ "XXIst 'Ludovic-Trarieux' Human Rights International Prize 2016". The Ludovic-Trarieux Award. Archived from the original on 31 July 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Chinese lawyer Wang Yu given ABA International Human Rights Award in absentia". Archived from the original on 17 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  8. ^ "Chinese lawyer Wang Yu to receive inaugural ABA International Human Rights Award". Archived from the original on 17 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  9. ^ "2021 International Women of Courage Award Recipients Announced". US Department of State. 4 March 2021. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  10. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-03-09.[permanent dead link
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