Tang Jitian (Chinese: 唐吉田; pinyin: Táng Jítián) is a human rights lawyer in the People's Republic of China.
[6] In 2017 he was turned back by border guards at Lo Wu Control Point when attempting to visit Hong Kong for medical treatment, and was advised that he was prohibited from leaving mainland China due to national security reasons.
[1] In December 2021, Tang vanished before arriving in Beijing for a human rights event hosted by the European Union and remained missing at the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics; his relatives believed him to be held in a form of secret detention commonly applied to dissidents in China.
He began his legal career in Guangdong province in 2005, and subsequently relocated to Beijing to work with the Anhui Law Firm.
There, he has taken on a variety of human rights causes, including representing petitioners subjected to reeducation through labor camps, victims of forced eviction, parents of children poisoned by melamine-tainted milk, religious minorities, and others.