河北魏县公安非法扣押人权律师说明在中共统治下中国人权状况越来越糟

YU LIU

2024年10月，在中国河北魏县，知名人权律师王宇、江天勇因参与刘美香的案件旁听和辩护，遭到了当地公安非法扣押，引发广泛关注。这一事件突显了中国大陆法治和人权状况的严重问题。

在该案件中，刘美香被指控贪污，但她的支持者认为指控存在疑点。当刘美香的亲友及律师在魏县法院出庭时，当地特警重兵把守，甚至在刘美香丈夫裘斌尝试拍摄法院外情景时，特警人员暴力夺取了他的手机。裘斌和前来支援的律师王宇、江天勇等人，因反抗或报警而被警方以“报假警”等罪名带走。王宇更是被指在派出所遭遇暴力对待，其手臂被扭伤。

在中国的法律体系内，公安系统应该是保护民众安全和执行法律的机构，但在魏县的这一事件中，公安不仅无视辩护律师的合法权利，还采用恐吓和暴力手段阻止正当的司法程序，严重违反了法治原则。这种做法使律师们在履行职务时面临巨大压力，表面上的司法公正被掩盖，法律权威受到侵蚀。此外，该事件中的不公正操作不仅包括对律师的非法扣押，还涉及法院对刘美香及其辩护律师的限制，例如剥夺律师包龙军的辩护资格，并限制旁听人数，使案件变得更加不透明。这种操作不仅侵害了刘美香的辩护权，更让外界质疑司法公正的缺失和中共政权对法律的漠视。

总的来说，这一事件是中国大陆法治建设和人权保护不健全的缩影，反映了中共执法部门经常执法犯法，以不正当手段打击异见和维护自身利益。这不仅损害了中国的法治形象，也使人权保障在名义上的法律体系下沦为虚设。

对华援助协会主席傅希牧师认为司法公正是社会公正的基础，呼吁中国魏县公安局立即释放被扣押的王宇律师、江天勇律师及裘斌先生。

The illegal detention of the human rights lawyers by police in Weixian, Hebei, China, illustrates the deteriorating human rights situation in China under CCP rule 

In October 2024, in Weixian County, Hebei Province,China, well-known human rights lawyers Wang Yu and Jiang Tianyong were illegally detained by local police for their involvement in Liu Meixiang's case observation and defense, which attracted widespread attention. This incident highlights serious problems in the rule of law and human rights situation in mainland China. In that case, Ms. Liu was charged with embezzlement, but her supporters argued that the charges were questionable.  When Liu Meixiang's relatives, friends and lawyers appeared in court at the Weixian County Court, the local special police were heavily guarded, and even when Liu Meixiang's husband, Qiu Bin, tried to film the scene outside the courthouse, the special police violently seized his cell phone.  Qiu Bin and lawyers Wang Yu, Jiang Tianyong and others who came to support were taken away by the police on charges of "swatting" and other charges for resisting or calling the police.  Wang Yu was even accused of being violently treated at the police station and his arm was sprained.  In China's legal system, the public security system is supposed to protect people's safety and enforce the law, but in this case in Weixian County, the police not only ignored the legitimate rights of defense lawyers, but also used intimidation and violence to prevent due process from the judicial process, which seriously violated the principle of the law.  This practice exposes lawyers to enormous pressure in the performance of their duties, conceals the apparent impartiality of justice and erodes the authority of the law. In addition, the unfair practices in this case included not only the illegal detention of lawyers, but also the court's restrictions on Liu Meixiang and her defense lawyers, such as disqualifying lawyer Bao Longjun from defending her defense and limiting the number of observers, making the case even more opaque. This kind of operation not only infringes on Liu Meixiang's right to defense, but also makes the outside world question the lack of judicial fairness and the CCP regime's disregard for the law.  Overall, this incident is a microcosm of mainland China's inadequate rule of law construction and human rights protection, reflecting the CCP's law enforcement agencies often enforce the law and violate the law, using improper means to crack down on dissent and protect their own interests. This not only damages China's image of the rule of law, but also reduces the protection of human rights to a non-existent legal system.

Pastor Fu Xi, Chairman of ChinaAid, believes that judicial justice is the foundation of social justice and calls on China Weixian Public Security Bureau to immediately release the detained lawyers Wang Yu, Jiang Tianyong and Qiu Bin.