At around 9 p.m. on April 19, Chen Keyun, a Chinese human rights lawyer, was walking in the Longdong Forest Machinery Factory neighborhood in Guangzhou’s Tianhe District when he was suddenly mobbed by several unidentified men, causing multiple injuries to his body. (Courtesy of the informant)
At about 9:00 p.m. on April 19, Chen Keyun, a Chinese human rights lawyer, was walking in the Longdong Forest Machinery Factory neighborhood in Guangzhou’s Tianhe District when he was suddenly beaten by several unidentified men, injuring his whole body in several places, fracturing several ribs and seriously injuring his right eye.
Chen Keyun lawyer told reporters that he did not know these people. When the incident happened, he was walking with his wife in the neighborhood, a few men began to say they wanted to talk to him, was refused, a group of people swarmed up to beat him, and a man rushed at Chen’s wife who was videoing and fiercely screamed to kill her.
“I have no grudge against them, I don’t know them at all, I have lived in this neighborhood for six years, I have not offended anyone.”
After hospital examination, Chen Keyun’s whole body was bruised in many places. The right side of the 8th rib fracture, the left side of the 3rd, 5 ribs light injury, right eye injury is serious, because several hospitals said there is no bed and failed to hospital treatment.
Chen Keyun analyzed that this encounter with the black hand may also not be a coincidental thing. This is because he has done several so-called sensitive cases, political cases and dozens of cases of Falun Gong. Since 2018, the authorities have been investigating him, and the Guangzhou authorities have tried to drive him back to his hometown of Changsha with constant harassment.
After New Year’s this year, the local defense authorities approached him to leave Guangzhou and were refused. in early March, a note was posted on his private car, threatening that he would not be allowed to park in the neighborhood. on the 25th, all the windows on the right side of the car were smashed, and the police were called and nothing was done.
“They whisked me away, I am here to give them added pressure ah, let me leave the jurisdiction, just an excuse, their purpose is to let me leave Guangzhou, I said to drive me away, take the legal route, under the eviction order well.”
Chen Keyun is passionate about public interest, concerned about the progress of human rights and the rule of law, and has been working on cases for the disadvantaged for years.
In 2013, he defended Yang Tingjian in the case of inciting subversion, and Liu Yuandong in the case of disturbing social order (the first offender in the Nandu incident); in 2014, he defended Wang Aizhong, Sun Tao and Xie Wenfei in the case of provoking and provoking trouble; in 2015, he defended the five gentlemen of Chibi in the case of disturbing social order. In 2015, he defended Yuan Bing, a defendant in the “disturbing social order” case, and in the same year, he defended Wang Xue, a defendant in the “inciting subversion” case.
In 2017, he served as the convener of the lawyer team of the Taojiang Four High School tuberculosis infection case, which was a national and international sensation, and had his lawyer’s license cancelled by Guangdong on the pretext of undertaking the case (the Taojiang infection case was named one of the top ten human rights and rule of law cases in China in 2018).
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