Chinese Lawyers Who Defended Falun Gong Face Disbarment

Epoch Times reported yesterday that in China, two human rights lawyers who attempted to defend Falun Gong practitioners are about to have their licenses suspended. The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice will be holding a public hearing tomorrow on revocation of the law licenses of Tang Jitian and Liu Wei. They are charged with disturbing court order, interfering with normal legal proceedings, and damaging implementation of the law. Six months ago, the lawyers withdrew from a case when the judge in the city of Luzhow would not let them speak in defense of their client. Some of the charges against the two lawyers stem from their refusal to cooperate with a security check in the courtroom that they say was illegal.