Ren Quanniu / 任全牛
Human-rights lawyer who defended Zhao Wei after the 709 crackdown and later represented clients in other politically sensitive cases. Amnesty documented a 2016 criminal detention; later sources document disbarment in 2021 and continued public rights-defense activity after loss of his license.
Canonical person profile: Ren Quanniu / 任全牛
Selected sources
- Amnesty International, July 14 2016
- Front Line Defenders profile
- CSW, January 27 2021
- Reuters via Irish Times, September 21 2025
- Reuters, January 5, 2021 — reported license pressure involving lawyers for Hong Kong activists.
- AFP via SinoDaily, 2020 — reporting on denied lawyer access in the Hong Kong 12 case.
- Amnesty International (Simplified Chinese), 2016 — contemporaneous detention reporting.
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