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= Wang Qiaoling 王峭玲, Li Wenzu 李文足, Yuan Shanshan原珊珊, Chen Guiqiu 陈桂秋, Liu Ermin 刘二敏 = Wang Qiaoling 王峭玲, Li Wenzu 李文足, Yuan Shanshan 原珊珊, Chen Guiqiu 陈桂秋 and Liu Ermin 刘二敏 are wives of human rights lawyers who have been detained and sentenced during the lawyers' crackdown started in 2015.

They started their activism to seek justice for their husbands. However, they have extended their support to other human rights activists in China. They launched campaigns advocating for the release of their husbands, often producing creative and satirical videos, publicly sharing their latest actions and openly questioning the unlawful practices of the authorities. The family members of targeted lawyers and activists have been subject to police surveillance, harassment and restricted freedom of movement.

Biography
Wang Qiaoling 王峭玲

wife of lawyers Li Heping,

Li Wenzu 李文足

Her husband, "Wang Quanzhang is a well-known Chinese human rights lawyer who once defended practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. He was charged with subversion of state power in January".

Yuan Shanshan原珊珊

"The director said Yuan, her film’s main character, had faced an emotional rollercoaster since her husband’s detention on 12 July 2015, when she was one month pregnant.

Police prevented her 41-year-old husband from attending the funeral of his mother and be present when she delivered her third child. In Xie’s absence their baby daughter, who was born in March, was not being named".

Chen Guiqiu 陈桂秋

After following the police's reccommendation not to raise attention on the detention of her husband, Ms. Chen Guiqiu decided it was time to speak out and contacted Wang Qiaoling and joined the movement. When her husband was realeased, she encouraged him to publish the transcript of the interview with his lawyer, where he admits that he had been tortured while detained.

Liu Ermin 刘二敏

wife of human rights activist Zhai Yanmin

Liu Ermin,, and Wang Qiaoling, Li Wenzu and Fan Lili, wife of activist Gou Hongguo, were taken away by Tianjin Hexi district police on 29th July 2016 after they went to a local courthouse to ask about rumoured trial dates for their husbands.

Human rights activism
The wives started their activism after the government's crackdown on human rights lawyers in July 2015, also known as the 709 crackdown, when more than 200 human rights lawyers and associates have been unlawfully detained and accused of attacking the party.

After their husbands were arrested, the women started to contact each other. Not only did they resisted the government's pressure to confess agaist their husbands, but they also started advocating and raising attention. Along with other relatives, they started campaigning using red clothes and carrying buckets reporting their demands and using online appeals.

"On 4 July, the wives of human rights lawyers and activists, along with six lawyers and several diplomats from foreign countries, went to the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the top prosecutor's office in Beijing, to demand to see their husbands after one year of detention.