Li Wenzu, the wife of detained human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, was not permitted to leave China to receive an award for her human rights work. Photo: AFP
Li Wenzu, the wife of detained human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, was not permitted to leave China to receive an award for her human rights work. Photo: AFP
Human rights in China
China /  Politics

Li Wenzu, Chinese ‘709’ campaigner banned from seeing detained lawyer husband, wins human rights award

  • Barred from leaving country, Li – wife of Wang Quanzhang – praises work of activists who fought for rights of the 300 lawyers China sought to silence

Guo Rui
Guo Rui

Updated: 11:56pm, 29 Nov, 2018

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Li Wenzu, the wife of detained human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, was not permitted to leave China to receive an award for her human rights work. Photo: AFP
Li Wenzu, the wife of detained human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, was not permitted to leave China to receive an award for her human rights work. Photo: AFP
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