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Li Wenzu sees video of a thin and aging Wang Quanzhang on a day set aside for celebrating love in China.

A friend says Wang Quanzhang has lost a few teeth, but his wife declines requests for an interview.

Wang Quanzhang says he is enjoying being able to move around, but remains apart from his family.

Xie Yang's lawyers, who exposed details of his torture, are replaced with a government-appointed attorney.

Three years after his disappearance, Wang is allegedly visited by a colleague in a Tianjin detention center.

Xu Yan, wife of detained attorney Yu Wensheng, has asked the French government to put pressure on Beijing over her husband's case.

Yu Wensheng's case now looks set to proceed to trial, as his wife tries to transfer funds to him in detention.

Chinese authorities shut down a legal center a week after revoking the licenses of more than 50 lawyers.

A Chinese rights lawyer is detained for speaking to a university class about online censorship.

Police step up monitoring of known civil rights activists around a key anniversary.

Parliament is asked to end the annual review process which allegedly targets rights lawyers.

Activists protesting for their release are themselves detained by police.

The authorities ignore requests for meetings with three lawyers being held in a Heilongjiang detention center.

The court refuses to provide original documents in the portfolio of evidence for the prosecution, they say.

China frees two activists as Beijing readies for the visit of several high-profile foreign officials.

China disbars two human rights lawyers who defended a Falun Gong practitioner.

They were trying to help several hundred people held illegally, a lawyer says.

The move is the latest against government critics in the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.

Authorities have detained at least eight lawyers on public order charges in recent weeks.

Officials give no explanation for the delays, which rights groups say target those involved in sensitive cases.

Lawyers hit out at a variety of tactics used by police to obstruct their profession.

Many sign an open letter in protest at proposed formal limits on their rights and powers.

Fellow rights lawyers say the entire family is being watched around the clock, and is 'not free,' including a high-schooler not implicated in any crime.

Some 3,000 people stand outside the Department of Justice, but officials decline requests to come down and talk.

Officials tell lawyers they should never defend anyone with links to the banned movement.

The internal disciplinary system operates entirely outside the law, lawyers say.

The defense attorneys believe the judge and prosecutors are incapable of offering their clients a fair trial.

The wife of one lawyer says police have tried to make her incriminate her husband.

Attendees at an enforced 'symposium' receive no reply to queries about 'disappeared' colleagues, while being warned not to speak to foreign media about their ...

Nine lawyers, some of them witnesses for a colleague, say they were held for 14 hours after turning up to support him.