Lawyer Chen Jiangang (second from left) and his family have fled China for the United States. Photo: Twitter

Chinese rights lawyer Chen Jiangang flees to US to escape ‘persecution’ in China

Chen says he was told he would ‘disappear’ if he continued to represent the daughter-in-law of jailed former Chinese leader Zhou Yongkang

Topic | Zhou Yongkang

Echo Xie in Beijing

Published: 6:30pm, 5 Aug, 2019

Updated: 10:51pm, 5 Aug, 2019

Lawyer Chen Jiangang (second from left) and his family have fled China for the United States. Photo: Twitter

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Echo Xie

Echo is a Beijing-based Chinese politics and policy reporter. Before joining the SCMP, she worked for Jiemian news and the CSMonitor Beijing Bureau. She has a master's in journalism from Shantou University.