China’s crackdown on human rights lawyers has prompted governments and bar organizations around the world to express concern and support for the detained Chinese attorneys. But China’s flourishing corporate bar—including the international firms active in China—has been relatively quiet.
In the spate of arrests, which began on July 9, more than 200 Chinese human rights lawyers and associated staffers have been detained by the Chinese government, with more than a dozen still in custody at press time. The global firms’ lack of public response highlights a split between commercial lawyers and weiquan, or rights-defending, lawyers, who are usually criminal defense attorneys for the disadvantaged—dissident intellectuals, reporters, lawyers and civil rights supporters, but mostly ordinary Chinese citizens engaged in disputes with government.
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