Li Heping is a civil rights lawyer in the People's Republic of China and a partner of the Beijing Global Law Firm, and a prominent figure in the Weiquan rights defending movement. He has defended underground Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, dissident writers and victims of forced evictions, and has sought to appeal on behalf of the lawyers Chen Guangcheng and Gao Zhisheng. He was abducted from his home on 10 July 2015 as part of the 709 crackdown on lawyers, was given a suspended jail term in April 2017 and was released in May 2017. His work earned him the Democracy Award for Religious Freedom of the National Endowment for Democracy in 2008 and the Human Rights Award of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe.
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is a civil rights lawyer in the People's Republic of China
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Li began his career in civil rights advocacy in the late 1990s
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He is a prominent figure in China's Weiquan (rights defending) movement
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