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Human Rights Day: US and EU call on China to release political prisoners
by Benjamin Haas in Hong Kong / Today, 6:09 AM
‘I remain extremely concerned about the ongoing detention of Chinese lawyers,’ the US ambassador to China says
More than half a dozen political prisoners in China should freed, the United States and European Union have said, citing a deteriorating human rights situation that has seen hundreds lawyers and activists detained in the past year.
Since coming to power in 2012 the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has presided over a wide-ranging crackdown on freedom of expression, rights lawyers, feminists, activists and religion. About 250 lawyers and activists were detained by police starting in July last year in what some have called a “war on law”
by Benjamin Haas in Hong Kong / Today, 6:09 AM
‘I remain extremely concerned about the ongoing detention of Chinese lawyers,’ the US ambassador to China says
More than half a dozen political prisoners in China should freed, the United States and European Union have said, citing a deteriorating human rights situation that has seen hundreds lawyers and activists detained in the past year.
Since coming to power in 2012 the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has presided over a wide-ranging crackdown on freedom of expression, rights lawyers, feminists, activists and religion. About 250 lawyers and activists were detained by police starting in July last year in what some have called a “war on law”
