HELP FREE THE HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS IN CHINA
#FREETHELAWYERS

WHERE: Pasadena Doo-Dah Parade – FREE, see map below

We are one of the groups in the parade:

The Great Firewall of China Marching Brigade of Visual Artists Guild

DATE: Sunday, November 22, 2015

The parade starts at 11:00 a.m

TIME: Do join us and be part of the parade; please be there by 10:00 a.m.

No experience necessary. Wear dark color business suits or attire.  Carry a briefcase.

We will provide signs with names and photos of the detained lawyers.

MEET: Meet on Nina St, between Altadena Dr and Vindeo Ave in Pasadena

INFORMATION: Visual Artists Guild, Ann Lau 310-433-0697, alau@visual-artists-guild.org

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Since the massive crackdown in China this year on human rights lawyers:

• Over 300 lawyers, staffs, activists have been beaten, threatened, criminally detained
• Over 28 lawyers are still detained with 25 held incommunicado or missing
• Only two lawyers have been allowed to meet with lawyers
• Lawyers who volunteered to represent the detained lawyers are themselves detained
• Family members have been questioned, threatened and under surveillance
• The sons of three lawyers have been refused passports to go abroad to study.
• China's government continued to claim that they follow the rule of law and denied the evidence of those lawyers detained
• Lawyer Gao Zhisheng continued to be denied medical access or travel since he was released from prison after 3 years of solitary confinement and tortured