[Today questioned] Defence lawyers obtain evidence of cell phone robbery: the Lanzhou City Customs Court's outright public power and the institutional disorder of "party-run justice"

On mid-August 6th, Lanzhou's hot day burned the blue street in front of the city's people's courthouse. Beijing Taizhou Lawyer's office lawyer Zhu Yongtop stood outside the court door, raising his cell phone ready to record the security blocking the process. A few seconds later, two men in uniform, without showing any documents, suddenly jumped forward. During the intense bullying and forced twist, Zhu's lawyer's cell phone was robbed; his fellow lawyer Zhu Yongbin was heavily pushed down to the ground, his arm and his waist body were extremely uncomfortable, and his blood pressure rose sharply.

The violent conflict that occurred in front of the court, arose from the trial of Zhou Zhou and the case of Shenyang Jin. As lawyers providing free legal assistance, Zhou Zhou and Zhou Jin just concluded the morning trial. The party they defended, Zhou Jin, was accused by the authorities of "provocation of crime" only because of helping farmers to earn salaries and transfer rights defense materials.

This scene is not only the encounter of two rights lawyers, but also the shadow of the serious alienation of the judicial system under the totalitarian regime of the Communist Party of China. Under the rule logic of "partial justice" and stable supremacy, the court is no longer adhering to the neutral and fair law hall, but the front-line position of the totalitarian machine to safeguard political order and social control. When the legal right to practice and personal safety of the defense lawyer is publicly deprived in front of the court door, the high-proclaimed "rule of the country according to law" of the Communist Party of China becomes completely ironic, revealing the blasphemy of absolute power in the absence of supervision and constraint.

Under the framework of the one-party dictatorship of the CPC, the judiciary system serves the ruling group’s “regime security” from its roots.Since the 2015 “709 Great Carnage”, human rights lawyers have been systematically suppressed and cleansed, and the right to defence as the last line of defence for justice and justice is constantly being undermined.

In the established pattern of the “great stability”, the law enforcement boundaries of public authority are unlimitedly stretched and even blurred. In this highly serious judiciary in the jurisdiction of the courts, the lawyers are reluctantly violated and seized evidence, essentially reflecting the complete disregard of the legal procedures of the stability system. At the same time, the blurred pocket crimes such as “provocation” have been highly instrumentalized as the standardized weapons of the authorities to suppress wages, rights and independent public opinion. When the courts, prosecutors and public security organs turn into a so-called “public prosecution force” under the unification of the legal committee, the lawyers are no longer seen as an indispensable defense force in

In the face of Donglong, a civilian police officer (alert number

1. of the Lanzhou Public Security Bureau, who subsequently arrived, Zhu Yoshida's lawyer made it clear that not only did the staff not show the documents, but also exerted the power of law enforcement within the court's jurisdiction, whose behavior was completely out of the legal police scope.

The local police recorded the complaint of the lawyer and promised to report to the superiors, however, under the sunshine outside the court door, the remainder of the stolen mobile phone still surrounded the scene.

In this judicial theatre dominated by absolute power, and his colleagues are still standing on the defence table – not only the difficulty of upholding the legitimate rights and interests of the parties, but also the silent struggle against an increasingly harsh dictatorship.