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Lawyers Hit Out At Chinese Police Amid Rumors of Detainee Abuse

Zhao Wei

Detained legal assistant Zhao Wei, shown in an undated photo from the rights website Weiquanwang. Weiquanwang

Amid unconfirmed reports that she has been sexually abused in detention, authorities are preventing a defense attorney from seeing a legal assistant jailed during last year’s nationwide police operation targeting human rights lawyers, RFA has learned. Continue reading

China: Subversion Charges Target Lawyers

Arrests Reflect Xi Jinping’s Broader Repression of Rights Activism

(New York) – The Chinese authorities’ formal arrest of at least 11 human rights lawyers, legal assistants, and activists on political subversion charges is an unprecedented and grave escalation of attacks on rights defenders in China, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities should immediately drop the charges and release the 11, as well as other lawyers and human rights advocates in custody for political reasons. Continue reading