Latest Data and Development of Cases of the 709 Crackdown (as of 18:00 of 8 July 2020)

As of 18:00 8 July 2020, at least 321 lawyers, law firm staff, human right activists and family members have been questioned, summoned, forbidden to leave the country, held under house arrest, residential surveillance, criminally detained or arrested.

Statistics by category*:

Sentenced and Case Closed: 15 persons

▪3 persons are serving sentence

①    Lawyer Zhou Shifeng ②Hu Shigen ③ Wu Gan

▪2 persons are serving suspended sentence

①    Lawyer Li Heping ②Zhai Yanmin

▪8 persons completed sentence

①Liu Xing ②Zhang Wanhe ③Yao Jianqing ④Li Yanjun ⑤Wang Fang ⑥Yin Xu’an ⑦Lawyer Jiang Tianyong ⑧Lawyer Wang Quanzhang

▪1 person exempted from criminal punishment

①Lawyer Xie Yang

1 has his suspend sentence terminated

①Gou Hongguo

Bail Condition Lifted: 26 persons

▪11 lawyers: ①Wang Qiushi ②Huang Liqun ③Siu Muqing ④Xie Yuandong ⑤Li Zhuyan ⑥Wang Yu ⑦Bao Longjun ⑧Ren Quanniu ⑨Li Chunfu ⑩Ren Quanniu ⑪Zhang Kai

▪4 lawyers’ assistants: ①Liu Peng ②Fang Xiangui ③Gao Yue ④Zhao Wei (Kaola)

▪2 law firm staff: ①Wang Fang ②Liu Sixin

▪4 human rights activists ①Liu Yongping (aka Lao Mu) ②Lin Bin (aka Wang Yun Monk) ③Tang Zhishun ④Xing Qingxian

▪5 religious activists: ①Yan Xiaojie ②Huang Yizi ③Zhang Chongzhu ④Zhang Zhi ⑤Cheng Congping