Non-centralized group of legal experts and intellectuals in China
Weiquan movement
Simplified Chinese
维权运动
Traditional Chinese
維權運動
Literal meaning
protect rights movement
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wéiquán Yùndòng
Rights
Theoretical distinctions
Claim rights and liberty rights
Individual and group rights
Natural rights and legal rights
Negative and positive rights
Human rights
Civil and political
Economic, social and cultural
Three generations
Rights by beneficiary
Accused
Animals
Children
Consumers
Creditors
Deaf
Disabled
Elders
Farmers
Fetuses
Humans
Indigenous
Intersex
Kings
LGBT
Transgender
Men
Minorities
Parents
Fathers
Mothers
Patients
Peasants
Plants
Prisoners
Robots
States
Students
Victims
Women
Workers
Youth
Other groups of rights
Assembly
Association
Asylum
Civil liberties
Digital
Education
Fair trial
Food
Free migration
Health
Housing
Linguistic
Movement
Development
Property
Repair
Reproductive
Rest and leisure
Self defense
Self-determination of people
Sexuality
Speech
Water and sanitation
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The Weiquan movement is a non-centralized group of lawyers, legal experts, and intellectuals in China who seek to protect and defend the civil rights of the citizenry through litigation and legal activism. The movement, which began in the early 2000s, has organized demonstrations, sought reform via the legal system and media, defended victims of human rights abuses, and written appeal letters, despite opposition from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Among the issues adopted by Weiquan lawyers are property and housing rights, protection for AIDS victims, environmental damage, religious freedom, freedom of speech and the press, and defending the rights of other lawyers facing disbarment or imprisonment.[1][2]
Individuals involved in the Weiquan movement have met with occasionally harsh reprisals from Chinese government officials, including disbarment, detention, harassment, and, in extreme instances, torture.[2] Authorities have also responded to the movement with the launch of an education campaign on the "socialist concept of rule of law," which reasserts the role of the CCP and the primacy of political considerations in the legal profession, and with the Three Supremes, which entrenches the supremacy of the CCP in the judicial process.
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