Chinese activist Chen Weixiang, a campaigner for the rights of sanitation workers, has been detained by police in the southern city of Guangzhou. Photo: CNA Chinese activist Chen Weixiang, a campaigner for the rights of sanitation workers, has been detained by police in the southern city of Guangzhou. Photo: CNA
Chinese activist Chen Weixiang, a campaigner for the rights of sanitation workers, has been detained by police in the southern city of Guangzhou. Photo: CNA
China /  Politics

China police remove prominent labour activist in home raid

  • Witness saw about a dozen police and plain-clothes men take Chen Weixiang and his colleague into custody on Tuesday
  • Chen’s detention caps a dark year for Chinese civil rights advocates

Topic |   Human rights in China
Keegan Elmer
Keegan Elmer

Updated: 10:58pm, 20 Dec, 2019

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Chinese activist Chen Weixiang, a campaigner for the rights of sanitation workers, has been detained by police in the southern city of Guangzhou. Photo: CNA Chinese activist Chen Weixiang, a campaigner for the rights of sanitation workers, has been detained by police in the southern city of Guangzhou. Photo: CNA
Chinese activist Chen Weixiang, a campaigner for the rights of sanitation workers, has been detained by police in the southern city of Guangzhou. Photo: CNA
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