China puts human rights activists on trial

Aug 04, 2016 21:46

Prominent rights lawyer filmed denouncing campaigners and blaming ‘foreign forces’ for law firm’s activities

China has has put on trial a number of detained human rights activists, handing down a suspended three-year sentence to one activist after he reportedly confessed to colluding to subvert the state.

Zhai Yamin, who has been accused of ( Read more... )

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lightframes August 5 2016, 00:30:14 UTC
Thanks for the link to the link to the timeline. It helped a lot.

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soleiltropiques August 8 2016, 02:18:26 UTC
Thanks for posting this, OP. The increase in human rights abuses since Xi Jinping came to power is really horrible. I mean, the situation was really bad before, but now it's gotten worse.

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