Jiang Tianyong, a lawyer who was disbarred in 2009 for defending high-profile dissidents and practitioners of Falun Gong and continued to speak out against government crackdowns on rights lawyers, has after six months of detention been chargedon suspicion of subverting state power. According to the notice dated May 31, 2017, received by his father he is being held in Changsha City Number One Detention Centre. Jiang Tianyong disappeared in November 2016 after traveling to Changsha city to provide advice and support to a fellow rights lawyer, Xie Yang. In December, authorities confirmed they were holding Jiang on suspicion of inciting subversion.