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Law in China is ridiculous. Don’t forget Chinese government arrest more than 100 lawyers in last two years

• throwaway5uie 8y ago
  Is the punchline, “It’s a good start?”
• nikanj 8y ago
  With a population of over a billion, that's a really low number. The EU and the USA together have around 850 million people, and I'd be surprised if they didn't arrest a hundred lawyers within the last two years too. One person in a thousand is a lawyer = a million lawyers in China. One lawyer in a thousand is a criminal = a thousand lawyer criminals in China. The scale of the country boggles the mind.
  • PavlovsCat 8y ago
    We know China is a big country. Did you actually assume the issue was the commenter wasn't aware of that? Incredible. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-42743961 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-42743961 > A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer has been detained while walking his child to school, his family says. > Yu Wensheng, a vocal critic of China's ruling Communist Party, was seized by about a dozen people, including a Swat team, after he left his flat with his son on Friday morning, his wife said. [..] > It is not clear where Mr Yu is being held, and local police told the AFP news agency they were not aware of his detention. > His wife, Xu Yan, told Reuters news agency: "I have not received any legal document about his detention and don't even know what crime he is suspected of committing." [..] > Mr Yu, a former commercial lawyer, has worked on many sensitive cases, including defending other human rights lawyers detained by the government. They're criminals in the eyes of the Chinese government. It's a bit like declaring people murdered by drones enemy combatants because they were murdered by drones -- not good enough.