#Thread It's been 5yrs since the crack down and round up of human rights lawyers and their families on July 9, 2015. Released lawyer Wang Quanzhang published part of his self-defense. Wang was sentenced to 4.5yrs in jail for "subversion".
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"In any normal countries around the world, the legal definition of 'subversion' means 'to topple with force'... The authorities can't arbitrarily 'argue' that a citizen's behaviors constitute subversion. It's even more appalling to equate some deeds (at most you may call them... 
... inappropriate) in the normal work of a practicing lawyer to subversion.
"These investigators haven't understood the basic concepts of 'state' and 'national security' but they could easily and openly damage the legal principles they bragged about in the name of national security..these anti-rule-of-law members are the real cause of social instability"
"In the detention centre of the national security bureau, Jing'an Guesthouse, and Jin'an Guesthouse, I received cruel interrogation... Although I had many moments when I would rather die, but what I suffered is nothing compared to the excruciation I learned about..."
"If you are a defender of human rights, and you really go down that road, you will become the most important and most dangerous enemy of the authority. Every word and deed of you and every detail of your life will be recorded, archived and interrogated. "
"China's constitution and laws provides a lot of freedoms and right for the citizens. But those who control the state machines have more. When these freedoms clash, the freedom of an individual will become extremely vulnerable and even vanish into thin air. "
"I never plead guilty. I never recorded any video admitting an offence. I never gave any testimony of committing a crime. When my case was with the police, I did not even write down a punctuation mark."
"Procedural justice crystalized the sufferings of human race...In all wrong and false cases, those who held the steer of the public powers violated laws brazenly in the most important procedures "
"Human rights lawyers and defenders in China have nothing more to ask for...all we want is that the law enforcers can observe the laws they made and bragged about, that the minimum freedoms and rights of the people in China's constitution and laws can be truly guaranteed"
"Failure doesn't mean the end of exploration and resistance...Even one day I have to stop, the Chinese people's efforts to redress wrong cases and overturn subversion charges won't cease, and the human race's efforts to pursue truth, freedom, justice and dignity won't cease."
"Those who hang 'people' on their lips while treading people under foot will realize one day, that striking down the human rights lawyers and defenders won't make the society more stable; that you are also a human and you also need human rights, and human rights lawyers."
"The interviews I gave were merely a small part of the truth. More truth and details will be unfolded and restored in a relatively long period when I clear my thoughts...the book is entitled The Endless End, temporarily."
"Maybe someday I will have to leave unwillingly...but dear friends, don't cry for me. I, Quanzhang, a lawyer, covered with exhaustion and wounds, carrying my success, virtue and sin, in my own way, have told the world I love deeply what a person I am."
May all Chinese be free from wrong and false cases, free from arbitrary ravage by the state machines, free from political and judicial persecutions under all sorts of pretexts...
May judicial justice, individual freedom and dignity to China...
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May judicial justice, individual freedom and dignity to China...
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