On July 10, 2015, there was a concerted campaign throughout China in which more than 200 human rights lawyers and activists were detained or arrested. It is a part of the Chinese government's effort to crack down on civil rights movement, which has been rising and posing a threat to the Communist Chinese government's dictatorship rule in China.
At the forum, Xue Wei condemned the Chinese government for its crackdown of human rights lawyers and NGO organizations in China and demanded the Chinese government to immediately release all those lawyers detained or arrested in July 2015.
In fact, immediately after this new round of arrests in China, the U.S. Department of State released a statement on its website protesting Chinese government's crackdown. However, the Chinese government responded that the statement of the U.S. government was just hostile noises and can be ignored just like a gum stuck to the shoe bottom.
Members of the CAD, NYC Chapter gave speeches at the forum in protest of Chinese government's arrest of human rights lawyers, demanding their immediate release.
After the meeting, CAD members went to the Chinese Consulate in Manhattan, New York and held a protest, demanding the Chinese government to have all the human rights lawyers released immediately.
CAD members attending today's event include: Shen Xuehua, Jin Hualin, Piao Yingmei, Piao Chunzi, Wei Jian, Xu Zhejun, Huang Donghui, Huang Jinghua, Zhao Chunping, Jiang Jiongri, Li Renshun, Liu Jingnan, Ren Chengguang.
Xu Zhejun and Huang Jinghua gave speeches at the protest.
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