Lawyers Emerge from Detention with Tales of Torture

Human rights lawyers and activists who were rounded up months ago, when security forces were in the grips of paranoia about a Chinese Jasmine Revolution, are now slowly being released from their extralegal detentions. And they have harrowing tales to tell.
Lawyers Emerge from Detention with Tales of Torture
Tang Jingling and Yao Lifa are pictured before being detained. The former is a civil rights lawyer, the latter an activist who has closely followed the election of 'independent candidates' for local positions in the People's Congress. RFA
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Tang Jingling and Yao Lifa are pictured before being detained. The former is a civil rights lawyer, the latter an activist who has closely followed the election of 'independent candidates' for local positions in the People's Congress. (RFA)
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