Li Heping

Li Heping
Born (1970-10-26) October 26, 1970 (age 54)
Alma materRenmin University of China
Occupation(s)lawyer, human rights activist
PartnerWang Qiaoling

Li Heping (Chinese: 李和平) is a civil rights lawyer in the People's Republic of China and a partner of the Beijing Global Law Firm who was abducted on 10 July 2015.[1] He is a prominent figure in China's Weiquan (rights defending) movement, having defended underground Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, dissident writers, and victims of forced evictions, among others.[2]

  1. ^ Halliday, Terence (8 June 2016). "My friend Li Heping, a man China thinks is 'more dangerous than Bin Laden'". The Guardian.
  2. ^ National Endowment for Democracy, Biographies -> Li Heping Archived 2010-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, 2008.