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"Chinese police said to detain outspoken lawyer"
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Chinese police detained an outspoken human rights lawyer in Beijing on Saturday, continuing an official crackdown on dissidents ahead of the opening of the national parliament, another lawyer said.
Gao Zhisheng has defended dissidents and protesters, and recently helped organize a rolling hunger strike to protest against police harassment of political activists.
Three plain-clothes police bundled Gao into a car as he walked to his office, said another human rights lawyer whom Gao called at the time. That lawyer asked that his name not be used, fearing official recrimination.
"Gao Zhisheng was telling me what was happening, but then his phone was taken away from him," said the other lawyer.[More...]
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