First, They Came for the Lawyers - By Jerome A. Cohen | Foreign Policy

First, They Came for the Lawyers - By Jerome A. Cohen | Foreign Policy: "It's open season on lawyers in China today. To be sure, not on most of the almost 200,000 who foster economic development and international business, but on those unwise enough to become involved in human rights, criminal justice, and controversial public-interest cases. For them, law has become an increasingly hazardous profession. They risk informal warnings, 24/7 monitoring, interference with client and law firm relations, loss of their right to practice, hooded abductions, beatings, torture, 'thought reform,' coerced 'confessions' and 'guarantees,' criminal prosecution, imprisonment, and incommunicado incarceration at home both before and after imprisonment."