Pu Zhiqiang

Pu Zhiqiang (born 17 January 1965) is a civil rights lawyer in the People's Republic of China specializing in press freedom, defamation, and product safety, among other issues. Based in Beijing, he is an executive partner of Beijing Huayi Law Firm,Pu is a prominent figure in the Weiquan movement, having advocated for writers and journalists in a number of high-profile cases. Due to the nature of his cases and his outspoken criticisms of official policies, Pu is monitored by security forces, and has been detained and questioned on several occasions.

Quotes

• From top to bottom, the Communist Party can't get through a single day without telling lies.
  • On the Chinese Communist Party case against him (24 July 2012)

• They claim Xinjiang belongs to China. So they shouldn't treat it like a colony. Don't be a predator and a conqueror. You treat them as your enemy.
  • On the Chinese government's policies towards Uighurs, the mainly Muslim minority living in Xinjiang in China's far west (7 May 2014)