Jiang Tianyong

The U.S. State Department joined international human rights groups in their support of four Chinese lawyers who are being held in custody by Chinese security forces.

Four rights lawyers were detained in China while attempting to free Falun Gong practitioners held prisoner in a brainwashing center.

Chinese authorities have refused to renew the licenses of over a dozen Chinese lawyers who took on politically sensitive cases.

A group of nearly a dozen Chinese human rights lawyers who attempted to investigate an extralegal “brainwashing center” in the southeast of the country were violently set upon by guards on May 13.

Communist officials in northeastern China have approached the daughter of a Falun Gong practitioner that was tortured to death, attempting to buy her silence.

The nephew of Chen Guangcheng has reportedly been detained by Chinese security forces.

Civil rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong was seized and beaten when trying to visit Chen Guangcheng. He is now under house arrest.

While the help of human rights activist supporters in the escape of Chen Guangcheng has been documented, the possible help of one of his security guards has not received as much attention.