Saturday, August 1, 2009

Leading Chinese Rights Lawyer Detained

Posted by Austin Ramzy Friday, July 31, 2009 at 12:13 am

Beijing authorities have detained the head a legal research and advocacy group, the latest blow in a continued drive against China's activist lawyers. Police took Xu Zhiyong, a human right lawyer who runs the recently shuttered Open Constitution Initiative (or Gongmeng in Chinese), from his Beijing apartment early Wednesday morning, according to a posting on the group's website. Another Gongmeng employee, Zhuang Lu, was also detained.

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