Despite its well-publicized record, China was re-elected last year to the United Nations` Human Rights Council.
The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a coalition of groups working within and outside China, identified six occasions last year that lawyers were beaten by plaintiffs, police officers or assailants likely hired by authorities.
Lawyers who defend human rights activists and dissidents targeted by China`s communist government have increasingly themselves become subject to political prosecutions, violence and other means of suppression, according to a report released Thursday.
When Philip Alston, the UN`s special rapporteur for human rights, visited China in August, authorities forbade him from meeting several activists and tightly controlled his schedule.
In more than a dozen cases, the report found, detainees were pressured to fire their own lawyers and accept government-supplied attorneys.
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