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Police Detain Wu Gan, Chinese Activist Known as ‘Super Vulgar Butcher’

cn-01police-articleLargeBy DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW June 01, 2015

The Chinese police have detained Wu Gan, a burly rights activist with a signature bald head and black beard, who supporters say skillfully merges cyberspace and real-life protests but whom authorities have painted in a barrage of articles and reports on state-run television as a morally degenerate troublemaker from a bad family.

The ferocity of attacks in news reports from People’s Daily, Continue reading