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On the night of July 11, the police in Guangzhou came for the human rights lawyer Ge Wenxiu. They threatened to break down his door. Publish Date July 31, 2015.<\/p>\n
Three weeks after the Chinese authorities began a sweep of human rights lawyers around the country, photographs and video have emerged of some of the raids that have so far netted more than 200 people, according to human rights groups.<\/p>\n
They show arguments between the lawyers and security personnel, often at the entrances of the lawyers\u2019 homes in the dead of night, as well as broken masonry and ironwork after forceful entry by police officers who, the lawyers said, often did not have detention or search warrants.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what it was like for Ge Wenxiu, 54, a lawyer, and He Yanyun, 26, a legal assistant, who were taken away by State Security and police officers from their homes in the southern city of Guangzhou.<\/p>\n
Both men were questioned and released, although Amnesty International estimates that 26 of the 230 taken in remain in detention, in what may be the Chinese state\u2019s largest crackdown on rights lawyers in decades.<\/p>\n
In an interview, Mr. Ge said about that 15 or 16 State Security and police officers first banged on his front door at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 11.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ignored them,\u201d he said. \u201cThen they came back at 11:30 and banged again and shouted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t not open the door. They said if I didn\u2019t open they\u2019d use an electric saw to cut it open.\u201d<\/p>\n
After that, he said, things went fairly well: \u201cThey didn\u2019t hit me after I opened up. I have to say their attitude was pretty civilized.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Ge said the police presented a summons. He was taken to a police station and released at 4 a.m., after four hours of questioning about his activities. The lawyer had been involved in early legal representation of a prominent civil rights campaigner, \u201cSuper Vulgar Butcher,\u201d Wu Gan, who was arrested in May.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in Guangzhou, as the raids continued around the country, at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, July 22, State Security and police officers knocked on the door of He Yanyun\u2019s apartment.<\/p>\n
Here is a photograph of the officers demanding entry, taken by Mr. He: JULY 31, 2015 7:00 AM July 31, 20 … Continue reading
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