Exiled Lawyer's Comments Angered the CCP, His Law Firm Was Implicated and Suppressed | Human Rights Lawyer

Recently, the two-level judicial bureaus in Beijing have delayed the normal annual inspection of Beijing Bi Yi Law Firm on the grounds of lawyer Fang Xiangui’s online comments, and have threatened to open a case for investigation, claiming that the annual inspection cannot be carried out even if it is delayed until September. In response, Li Guobei, director of Beijing Bi Yi Law Firm, issued a statement saying that this was a typical abuse of po…

On May 21, a statement released by Beijing Biyi Law Firm on the suppression attracted attention from the outside world. The statement said that the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice threatened and made things difficult for the law firm on the grounds that Fang Xiangui, a former lawyer of the law firm, had made so-called "anti-party and anti-social" remarks criticizing Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping overseas, in order to prevent the …