Gagging the Lawyers: China’s Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyers and Its Implications for U.S.-China Relations

HVC-210 Capitol Visitor Center, Washington, DC 20515 | Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Opening Statements

Senator Marco Rubio, Chairman

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Representative Christopher Smith, Cochairman

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Witnesses

Terence Halliday: Co-director of the Center on Law & Globalization at the American Bar Foundation and Co-author of the book Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work.

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Teng Biao: Chinese human rights lawyer; Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, and Co-founder, the Open Constitution Initiative and China Human Rights Accountability Center.

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Xia Chongyu: Son of imprisoned human rights lawyer Xia Lin and a student at Liberty University.

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Xiaorong Li: Independent scholar and former researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland.

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