Research status: Verified baseline profile; deeper research and archive-copy acquisition continue.
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Verified profile
Teng Biao is a Chinese human-rights lawyer and legal scholar associated with rights-defense advocacy. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International document detention, disappearance concerns, surveillance, restrictions on his professional work and other consequences connected with his public rights advocacy and writing.
Media archive baseline
- Human Rights Watch, 2008 — Walking on Thin Ice: rights-lawyer profile and March 2008 detention.
- Amnesty International, February 28, 2011: detention/disappearance concerns involving Teng Biao, Jiang Tianyong and Tang Jitian.
- Amnesty International, May 6, 2011: records Teng’s return home after release and continuing surveillance.
- Human Rights Watch, August 4, 2010: writing, passport restrictions, detention, law-license and university consequences.
Research still pending
Chinese-language writings and interviews; Sun Zhigang petition; Gongmeng/Open Constitution Initiative; Charter 08; China Against Death Penalty; detention/exile chronology; primary legal records and lawful durable copies.
Archive-control note: Source found online and source registered in Drive do not mean an original/archive copy has been saved.
Last research audit: September 1, 2026.
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