Relatives of Jailed Chinese Lawyers Refuse Food on Crackdown Anniversary (Radio Free Asia)
Radio Free Asia, July 10, 2017
Relatives of Jailed Chinese Lawyers Refuse Food on Crackdown Anniversary
“The New York City Bar Association said the crackdown has amounted nothing less than a ‘war on law.’ ‘[In a crackdown] unprecedented in its scale and severity, Chinese human rights lawyers and activists have been summoned for questioning, kidnapped by secret police, detained incommunicado in “black jails” and other prisons,’ the association said in a statement on its website. ‘[They have been] humiliated, and subjected to marathon interrogation sessions and other forms of sadistic psychological and physical torture, including sleep deprivation, forced medication … brutal beatings, electric shocks, prolonged submersion in water, death threats, and months of solitary confinement,’ it said. ‘The harassment, intimidation, disappearance, detention, and prosecution of Chinese human rights lawyers undermine China’s legal reform and deter the development of a professional and independent bar,’ the statement said.'”
