A Chinese lawyer has had his licence to practice restored after going on hunger strike.
Zhang Keke said he failed the 'annual assesement', a test which all lawyers in China are required to pass each year, because he defended practitioners of Falun Gong. The religion is being eradicated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with typical fluffiness (re-education, forced labour, torture). Keke claimed his involvement with the persecuted faith led the CCP to arrange for for him to fail.
But Keke retaliated by announcing a 100 day hunger strike in front of the Wuhan Bar Association office. After only two days, during which members of the public and other lawyers joined him in his hunger strike on the steps of the office, the Wuhan Lawyers Association crumbled. It told Keke it has decided to restore his licence, and could he please bugger off as it was sick of pushing through a crowd of thin solicitors every time it popped out for a fag.
Keke thanked his supporters and immediately risked being dropped in a well. He said that the annual assessment was an illegal imposition by the CCP but that “without passing the assessment, lawyers face difficulties and restrictions in their work, such as getting documents and meetings. Lawyers should not obey this illegal system, but are left with no choice”. That's grade F in the bag for next year, then.
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Zhang Keke said he failed the 'annual assesement', a test which all lawyers in China are required to pass each year, because he defended practitioners of Falun Gong. The religion is being eradicated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with typical fluffiness (re-education, forced labour, torture). Keke claimed his involvement with the persecuted faith led the CCP to arrange for for him to fail.
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But Keke retaliated by announcing a 100 day hunger strike in front of the Wuhan Bar Association office. After only two days, during which members of the public and other lawyers joined him in his hunger strike on the steps of the office, the Wuhan Lawyers Association crumbled. It told Keke it has decided to restore his licence, and could he please bugger off as it was sick of pushing through a crowd of thin solicitors every time it popped out for a fag.
Keke thanked his supporters and immediately risked being dropped in a well. He said that the annual assessment was an illegal imposition by the CCP but that “without passing the assessment, lawyers face difficulties and restrictions in their work, such as getting documents and meetings. Lawyers should not obey this illegal system, but are left with no choice”. That's grade F in the bag for next year, then.