China rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang released after five years in jail
A leading Chinese human rights lawyer has been released from prison after almost five years behind bars, his wife said Sunday. Wang Quanzhang, 44, was first detained in 2015 in a sweeping crackdown on more than 200 lawyers and government critics in China as President ...
Guilt by association: Kin of Chinese activists face house arrest, harassment from 'smiling tigers'
When a team of Chinese state security agents picked up Li Wenzu and then prevented her from leaving her own home last week, she was scared but not surprised. She was detained on the seventh day of a protest march she organized in an attempt ...
Wife of detained Chinese lawyer begins 100-kilometer march to press for answers
The wife of a detained Chinese lawyer set off on Wednesday on a march of more than 100 km from Beijing to Tianjin city, where she believes her husband is being held incommunicado, in a bid to force authorities to explain his arrest. Lawyer Wang ...
