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China’s ‘Bravest Female Lawyer’ Wins US Women of Courage Award
A woman known as the “bravest female lawyer in China” has been honored by the United States with an International Women of Courage Award.
Wang Yu, one of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers, was arrested and imprisoned amid an infamous nationwide round-up of hundreds of lawyers and rights advocates known as the “709 crackdown” in 2015. She has since been released and is now under an exit ban.
The lawyer has defended activists, scholars, Falun Gong practitioners, farmers, and petitioners in cases involving a range of issues from women’s and children’s rights to religious liberty to freedom of expression.