Teng Biao

Lecturer at China University of Political Science and Law; he practices law at the Beijing Huayi Law Firm, and is the Director of China Against Death Penalty, Beijing. He holds a PhD from Peking University Law School. In 2003, he was one of the “Three Doctors of Law” who complained to the National People’s Congress about unconstitutional detentions of internal migrants in the widely known “Sun Zhigang Case.” Since then, Teng Biao has provided counsel in numerous other human rights cases, including those of rural rights advocate Chen Guangcheng, rights defender Hu Jia, the religious freedom case of Wang Bo, and numerous death penalty cases. He has also co-founded two groups that have combined research with work on human rights cases: “Open Constitution Initiative” (Gongmeng / now Gongmin) and “China Against Death Penalty” (tengbiao89@gmail.com).