China Blocks Intern From Obtaining License For 7 Years After He Refused to Join Lawyers Association

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China Blocks Intern From Obtaining License For 7 Years After He Refused to Join Lawyers Association

A law firm intern has been blocked from obtaining a lawyer license for over seven years because he refused to join the party-affiliated lawyers’ association. Zhang Wenpeng has been a law firm intern for more than seven years, even though in China, a year of internship suffices to be licensed as a lawyer. Recently, the police summoned him from a foreign province and humiliated him by forcing him to put on inmate clothes. The reason for all the mi…