Luo Qian and the first 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square case of him

• Author: China Law Digest

December 28 2012, Hunan Shaoyang Bureau of Justice notified that Luoqian would not be allowed to obtain a lawyer’s license because of his subsequent imprisonment, and also ordered to invalidate his bar test result. A person who has a record of conviction for an intentional crime committed earlier is banned from bar examination, according to regulation of China bar examination.

“They were lying. I think this is a political persecution.” Luoqian says “They already know I had a record of conviction when I register bar exam, and it is ‘Guo Bao (security detachment) who took me to the exam spot first time.”

Luoqian, 44, is from Shaoyang, Hunan, and now is a door guard of a middle school. He was a student of Renmin University, back to 1989. He was detained for three months for taking part of demonstrations in Beijing, and then was sent to re-education through labor twice, for revealing inside story of a bizarre suicidal of a Wugang city vice-presidant and taking part of a teacher’s strike in Shaoyang.

January 30, Hunan bureau of justice held the hearing on decision about canceling Luoqian’s bar exam test. Before the bureau of justice make final decision, words from interested person should be heard, according to the regulation...