CHINA—Human rights defenders and appellants have been refused entry into Beijing’s “Exhibition of Human Rights in China” and one appellant was arrested after he displayed a sign which said “We are bitterly and painstakingly waiting for China to have human rights.”
A local Beijing appellant, Wang Jianping, said that the arrested man, Zhang Lianxi, had been refused entry into the exhibition, held at the Cultural Palace of the Nationalities in Beijing, for the last two days. He protested on the morning of November 19 and was immediately dragged into a police car by several policemen. His current situation is unknown.
Wang said, “This morning the police started to arrest people outside the exhibition. They did not dare to arrest anybody yesterday, but just took videos. Today they have started being mean.”
She said that she has been to the exhibition for the last two days and will continue to go there until the end of the exhibition. Wang’s husband committed suicide by drinking pesticide because their house was forcibly demolished by the government.
