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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
by 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.
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> 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."
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> 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.