Yu Wensheng was seized on Friday as he left his Beijing flat to walk his child to school by about a dozen people, including a Swat team, according to sources. Photo: AFP
Yu Wensheng was seized on Friday as he left his Beijing flat to walk his child to school by about a dozen people, including a Swat team, according to sources. Photo: AFP
Human rights in China
China /  Politics

Lawyer of Chinese human rights attorney Yu Wensheng calls detention ‘absurd’

Yu is accused of ‘disrupting public service’ after circulating open letter calling for reforms to constitution, including multi-candidate presidential elections

Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse

Updated: 11:09pm, 20 Jan, 2018

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Yu Wensheng was seized on Friday as he left his Beijing flat to walk his child to school by about a dozen people, including a Swat team, according to sources. Photo: AFP
Yu Wensheng was seized on Friday as he left his Beijing flat to walk his child to school by about a dozen people, including a Swat team, according to sources. Photo: AFP
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