China: Free Rights Defenders for Lunar New Year

Expand From left to right: Yu Wensheng, Qin Yongpei, Ding Jiaxi © 2020 Private (New York) – The Chinese government should immediately release activists, lawyers, and others arbitrarily detained for their work defending human rights and allow them to return to their families to celebrate Lunar New Year, Human Rights Watch said today. In the most recent crackdown beginning late December 2019, authorities have detained participants to a private gathering on human rights in Fujian province. In new videos, detainees’ family members urge the authorities to release their loved ones. “Numerous Chinese…

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