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Pu Zhiqiang is a prominent Chinese rights lawyer and former 1989 student participant. Human Rights Watch documents his defense of sensitive cases, advocacy against re-education-through-labor, attendance at a private May 2014 Tiananmen seminar, prolonged detention, and a December 2015 conviction with a three-year suspended sentence for social-media posts.
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1989 participation records; major legal case files; re-education-through-labor advocacy; May 2014 seminar records; indictment, trial and judgment records; lawyer-license consequences; essays, interviews, multilingual media, video, audio and photos.
Last research audit: August 29, 2026.
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