Police in China’s Hubei Target Outspoken Wife of ‘Disappeared’ Human Rights Lawyer (Radio Free Asia)
Radio Free Asia, October 11, 2017
Police in China’s Hubei Target Outspoken Wife of ‘Disappeared’ Human Rights Lawyer
“On Wednesday, Yuan Shanshan, wife of detained rights lawyer Xie Yanyi, said families of those detained in the July 2015 crackdown still face regular harassment from the authorities. ‘I don’t think they have any respect for the law, because they know very well that they are breaking it, but they carry on doing it to achieve certain aims,’ Yuan said. ‘And it’s not just breaking the law; it’s also antihumanitarian.’ ‘They are behaving rather inhumanely towards these people,’ she said. The New York City Bar Association has said the crackdown amounts to nothing less than a ‘war on law.’ Detained lawyers have reported being humiliated, subjected to lengthy interrogation sessions and physical torture, including sleep deprivation, beatings, electric shocks, and forced medication, as well as months of solitary confinement, the group said in July.”
