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Teng Biao

Teng Biao

HRD, Lawyer

The past two years they’ve arrested more than three-hundred human rights defenders and intellectuals, such as Pu Zhiqiang, Tang Jingling, and Ilham Tohti..They cracked down on the Internet, and they published a series of articles against universal value], constitutionalism, and judicial independence. With such actions, they can’t have meaningful reform of the legal system

Teng Biao is a human rights defender and lawyer in China. Teng Biao is one of the founders of the Open Constitution Initiative in 2003. In 2006 he was counsel for the blind civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who was sentenced to four years and three months in prison.

Human rights defenders in China work in an extremely hostile environment and under President Xi Jinping they have seen the space in which to operate further restricted.

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Teng Biao