Pu Zhiqiang charged with ‘inciting ethnic hatred’ and ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ in Beijing court on Monday and faces up to eight years’ jail in what supporters call a witch-hunt

It was 25 years ago, but Mao Hengfeng still vividly remembers the piercing cries of her baby.

Human rights lawyer Wang Yu and her husband Bao Longjun, who have been detained incommunicado for three months, were shown on state television in a distressed state yesterday, condemning a failed attempt to smuggle their teenage son out of China.