Beijing (AFP) - China on charges of "subversion" of the two new defense lawyers and human rights held incommunicado, a lawyer said Wednesday, bringing the total to nine accused in connection with a crackdown conducted for six months.(solicitors in bournemouth)

 

More than 130 lawyers and law firms employees were arrested and questioned in July - a raid on an unprecedented scale against these lawyers who try to win against the courts subject to political power.

 

Ms. Wang Yu, a Beijing firm Fengrui, the center of the arrest campaign, is now officially accused of "subversion against the state", punishable by life in prison, said his lawyer Li Yuhan in AFP.

 

The husband of Ms. Wang, Bao Longjun, was he accused of "inciting subversion against the state" and faces a maximum sentence of 15 years imprisonment, Li said, citing people familiar.(solicitors bournemouth area)

 

This is the first time the family of the couple is informed of their fate, more than six months after the beginning of their detention.

 

Their son, Bao Zhuoxuan, 16, is also subject to a form of house arrest, according to friends. The teen was arrested in October after crossing the land border into Burma, had announced state media.

 

Hundreds of lawyers have used the courts to seek redress for their clients, victims of expropriation or "black jails" non-official, or dissident intellectuals.(solicitors bournemouth poole)

 

But state media - which had in the past sometimes supported these initiatives - have qualified lawyers "criminal gang" who disturb public order by organizing demonstrations before the courts in order to influence verdicts.

 

Since the arrival of Xi Jinping to the presidency in 2013, NGOs and experts denounce a growing intensification of repression against critical voices against the communist regime, which tolerates no organized dissent.

 

Wang Yu is particularly known for defending the original Chinese Uighur academic Ilham Tohti and alleged victims of forced demolitions and sexual assault.

 

State television broadcast a recording showing raising his voice in a trial to admonish, and had interviewed an employee of the court considering his behavior devoid of "criminal mind". (solicitors Bournemouth)

 

The indictment of seven lawyers and Chinese lawyers, including that of the founder of the firm Fengrui, Zhou Shifeng, and a legal assistant of 24 years, Zhao Wei, had been confirmed to AFP Tuesday.

 

The United States, who have already spoken by the voice of the State Department on cases of Chinese lawyers, denounced Wednesday "the ongoing repression" and "urged China to immediately release these lawyers and others like them arrested for trying to protect the rights of Chinese citizens. (solicitors Bournemouth)