China Woman Activist(01 of21)
Open Image ModalIn this April 18, 2015 photo, Wang Yu, a lawyer for Chinese activist Li Tingting, speaks during an interview in Beijing. Li, one of five recently released Chinese women\'s rights activists feels her dedication to activism has grown only stronger after spending 37 days in detention with interrogators who blew smoke onto her face and insulted her sexual orientation, her girlfriend and her lawyer said. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China Woman Activist(02 of21)
Open Image ModalIn this April 18, 2015 photo, the girlfriend of Chinese activist Li Tingting, who wished to be identified only by her English name of Teresa, speaks during an interview in Beijing. Li, one of five recently released Chinese women\'s rights activists feels her dedication to activism has grown only stronger after spending 37 days in detention with interrogators who blew smoke onto her face and insulted her sexual orientation, her girlfriend and her lawyer said.(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China Woman Activist(03 of21)
Open Image ModalIn this April 18, 2015 photo, Chinese activist Li Tingting, left, points as she holds hands with her girlfriend, who wished to be identified only by her English name of Teresa as they walk along a street in suburban Beijing. Li, one of five recently released Chinese women\'s rights activists feels her dedication to activism has grown only stronger after spending 37 days in detention with interrogators who blew smoke onto her face and insulted her sexual orientation, her girlfriend and her lawyer said. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China Woman Activist(04 of21)
Open Image ModalIn this April 18, 2015 photo, the girlfriend of Chinese activist Li Tingting, who wished to be identified only by her English name of Teresa, right, speaks during an interview as she sits with Li\'s lawyer Wang Yu, left, in Beijing. Li, one of five recently released Chinese women\'s rights activists feels her dedication to activism has grown only stronger after spending 37 days in detention with interrogators who blew smoke onto her face and insulted her sexual orientation, her girlfriend and her lawyer said. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
HONG KONG-CHINA-LAW-POLICE-RIGHTS(05 of21)
Open Image ModalHong Kong Democratic Party\'s Albert Ho (C) wears mock hand cuffs as he and legislator Leung Kwok-hung (L), known as \'Long Hair\', attend a protest in Hong Kong on July 12, 2015, after at least 50 Chinese human rights lawyers and activists were detained or questioned in recent days in an \'unprecedented\' police swoop, rights groups said on July 11, with around 20 still feared to be held. The scale of the clampdown on the legal profession began to emerge when a friend of lawyers and staff at a single Beijing law firm known for its human rights casework said at least five had been detained in the last couple of days. AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANTHONY WALLACE via Getty Images)
HONG KONG-CHINA-LAW-POLICE-RIGHTS(06 of21)
Open Image ModalHong Kong Democratic Party\'s Albert Ho (C) releases himself from mock hand cuffs as he and legislator Leung Kwok-hung (L), known as \'Long Hair\', attend a protest in Hong Kong on July 12, 2015, after at least 50 Chinese human rights lawyers and activists were detained or questioned in recent days in an \'unprecedented\' police swoop, rights groups said on July 11, with around 20 still feared to be held. The scale of the clampdown on the legal profession began to emerge when a friend of lawyers and staff at a single Beijing law firm known for its human rights casework said at least five had been detained in the last couple of days. AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANTHONY WALLACE via Getty Images)
HONG KONG-CHINA-LAW-POLICE-RIGHTS(07 of21)
Open Image ModalHong Kong legislator Leung Kwok-hung, known as \'Long Hair\', of the League of Social Democrats speaks during a protest in Hong Kong on July 12, 2015, after at least 50 Chinese human rights lawyers and activists were detained or questioned in recent days in an \'unprecedented\' police swoop, rights groups said on July 11, with around 20 still feared to be held. The scale of the clampdown on the legal profession began to emerge when a friend of lawyers and staff at a single Beijing law firm known for its human rights casework said at least five had been detained in the last couple of days. AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANTHONY WALLACE via Getty Images)
HONG KONG-CHINA-LAW-POLICE-RIGHTS(08 of21)
Open Image ModalHong Kong Democratic Party\'s Albert Ho (C) wears mock handcuffs as he attends a protest in Hong Kong on July 12, 2015, after at least 50 Chinese human rights lawyers and activists were detained or questioned in recent days in an \'unprecedented\' police swoop, rights groups said on July 11, with around 20 still feared to be held. The scale of the clampdown on the legal profession began to emerge when a friend of lawyers and staff at a single Beijing law firm known for its human rights casework said at least five had been detained in the last couple of days. AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ANTHONY WALLACE via Getty Images)
APTOPIX China Rights Lawyers(09 of21)
Open Image ModalA woman is reflected on a glass as she reads a Global Times newspaper published a story of detained human rights lawyers, and calling the U.S. criticism uncomfortable but inconsequential, in Beijing Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Chinaâs state media on Tuesday accused more than two dozen human rights attorneys rounded up in recent days of being troublemakers intent on illegal activism as foreign governments and rights groups expressed growing concern over the arrests. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China Rights Lawyers(10 of21)
Open Image ModalA woman is reflected on a glass as she walks past a Global Times newspaper published a story of detained human rights lawyers, and calling the U.S. criticism uncomfortable but inconsequential, in Beijing Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Chinaâs state media on Tuesday accused more than two dozen human rights attorneys rounded up in recent days of being troublemakers intent on illegal activism as foreign governments and rights groups expressed growing concern over the arrests. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China Journalists Under Pressure(11 of21)
Open Image ModalIn this Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 photo, Chinese policemen manhandle a foreign photographer, center, as he photographs Zhang Qingfang, lawyer of legal scholar and founder of the New Citizens movement Xu Zhiyong, speaking to the media near the No. 1 Intermediate People\'s Court, where Xu appeared for his verdict in Beijing. The government is intensifying efforts to control foreign media coverage of China, blocking websites, harassing reporters trying to cover trials of activists in Beijing and thwarting efforts by The New York Times to station new journalists on the mainland. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China Journalists Under Pressure(12 of21)
Open Image ModalIn this Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 photo, policemen try to block journalists from interviewing Xu Zhiyong\'s lawyer Zhang Qingfang as he speaks to the media near the No. 1 Intermediate People\'s Court, in Beijing. The government is intensifying efforts to control foreign media coverage of China, blocking websites, harassing reporters trying to cover trials of activists in Beijing and thwarting efforts by The New York Times to station new journalists on the mainland. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China Citizens Movement Trial(13 of21)
Open Image ModalChinese policemen manhandle a photographer, center, as he photographs Zhang Qingfang, lawyer of legal scholar and founder of the New Citizens movement Xu Zhiyong speaking to the media near the No. 1 Intermediate People\'s Court, where Xu appeared for his verdict in Beijing Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014. The Beijing court on Sunday sentenced Xu to four years in jail for disrupting order in public places, in a case that the U.S. government and other critics say is retribution against his push to fight corruption and create equal educational opportunities. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China Citizens Movement Trial(14 of21)
Open Image ModalZhang Qingfang, lawyer of legal scholar and founder of the New Citizens movement Xu Zhiyong, speaks to the media near the No. 1 Intermediate People\'s Court, in Beijing Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014. The Beijing court on Sunday sentenced Xu to four years in jail for disrupting order in public places, in a case that the U.S. government and other critics say is retribution against his push to fight corruption and create equal educational opportunities. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China Citizens Movement Trial(15 of21)
Open Image ModalPolicemen try to take away Zhang Qingfang, center, lawyer of legal scholar and founder of the New Citizens movement Xu Zhiyong, as he speaks to the media near the No. 1 Intermediate People\'s Court, in Beijing Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014. The Beijing court on Sunday sentenced Xu to four years in jail for disrupting order in public places, in a case that the U.S. government and other critics say is retribution against his push to fight corruption and create equal educational opportunities. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China New Citizens Movement(16 of21)
Open Image ModalFILE - In this July 17, 2009 file photo, legal scholar Xu Zhiyong pauses as he attends a meeting with lawyers at a restaurant in Beijing. The prominent Chinese legal activist Xu, who founded a group that promotes civil society, was indicted Friday, Dec. 13, 2013 by Beijing prosecutors and will likely stand trial soon, his lawyer Zhang Qingfang said. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China New Citizens Movement(17 of21)
Open Image ModalFILE - In this July 17, 2009 file photo, legal scholar Xu Zhiyong, center, walks past Chinese lawyers, Jiang Tianyong, right, and Yang Huiwen, second from left, after a meeting at a restaurant in Beijing. The prominent Chinese legal activist Xu, who founded a group that promotes civil society, was indicted Friday, Dec. 13, 2013 by Beijing prosecutors and will likely stand trial soon, his lawyer Zhang Qingfang said. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
APTOPIX China Airport Blast(18 of21)
Open Image ModalJi Zhongji cries as he speaks to journalists about his brother Ji Zhongxing who is on trial for endangering public safety by setting off an explosion two months ago at Beijing\'s airport, outside a courthouse in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Ji Zhongxing\'s lawyer said the former taxi driver who was paralyzed after a beating by city officials in Guangdong province in 2005 was only seeking attention to his grievances and didn\'t intend to detonate the blast or hurt anyone. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China Airport Blast(19 of21)
Open Image ModalJi Zhongji cries as he speaks to journalists about his brother Ji Zhongxing who is on trial for endangering public safety by setting off an explosion two months ago at Beijing\'s airport, outside a courthouse in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Ji Zhongxing\'s lawyer said the former taxi driver who was paralyzed after a beating by city officials in Guangdong province in 2005 was only seeking attention to his grievances and didn\'t intend to detonate the blast or hurt anyone. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China Nobel(20 of21)
Open Image ModalChinese lawyer Shang Baojun, second from left, who is representing Liu Hui, brother-in-law of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, ducks under a police tape to talk to foreign diplomats gathered outside a courthouse in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. A Chinese court on Friday upheld the 11-year prison sentence handed down to Liu Hui, according to the lawyer. Relatives have denounced Liu Hui\'s conviction on fraud charges in a real estate dispute as political payback for the strong pro-democracy stance taken by Liu Xiaobo, who was imprisoned on subversion charges in 2009.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
China Nobel(21 of21)
Open Image ModalChinese police men turn back a journalist who tried to approach a car with Chinese lawyer Shang Baojun who is representing Liu Hui, brother-in-law of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. A Chinese court on Friday upheld the 11-year prison sentence handed down to Liu Hui, according to the lawyer. Relatives have denounced Liu Hui\'s conviction on fraud charges in a real estate dispute as political payback for the strong pro-democracy stance taken by Liu Xiaobo, who was imprisoned on subversion charges in 2009. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)