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NYT: In China, they arrest lawyers

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In China, they arrest lawyers: See NYT today: Lawyer’s Detention Shakes China’s Rights Movement: China’s nascent legal rights movement, already reeling from a crackdown on crusading lawyers, the kidnapping of defense witnesses and the shuttering of a prominent legal clinic, has been shaken by the detention of a widely respected rights defender who has been incommunicado since the police led him away from his apartment 12 days ago. The man who was detained, Xu Zhiyong, 36, a soft-spoken and politically shrewd legal scholar who has made a name representing migrant workers, death row inmates and the parents of babies poisoned by tainted milk, is accused of tax evasion. The charge is almost universally seen here as a cover for his true offense: angering the Communist Party leadership through his advocacy of the rule of law...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).