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Latest for @dw_chinese - On Monday, 10 @UN Human Rights experts issued a public statement to express their concern over the forced disappearance and detention of three human rights activists in #China. The three of them are currently put under #RSDL. dw.com/zh/%E8%81%94%E…
Ding Jia-Xi, Zhang Zhong-shun and Dai Chen-ya were part of the 9 Chinese activists who were arrested by Chinese police on December 26, after they attended a dinner on December 13 in Xiamen to discuss about the political and social situation in #China.
All three of them have since been transferred to "Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location," which according to @yujiechentw, allows the Chinese police to interrogate the detainees at any point and they can be detained up to six months.
(1/10) ICYMI: we marked yesterday, 2 yrs since Chinese lawyer #YuWensheng's disappearance in 2018, with a round-up of how the int'l community took steps to call for for accountability. But wait - there was more in 2019!
Follow/RT to join our call on China to #FreeYuWensheng.
Follow/RT to join our call on China to #FreeYuWensheng.
(2/10) #YuWensheng received the Franco-German human rights prize - accepted by @xuyan709 - in January, and many govts called for China to release detained HRDs and lawyers at #HRC40 in March. This kind of visibility and pressure is key - and the more countries join, the better.
#MichaelKovrig & #MichaelSpavor have been formally arrested after 150+ days in detention (specifically #RSDL). A thread explaining a bit about what this means and why there are still so many things that we don't know (and likely will not know anytime soon). 1/
There is often confusion in English b/c, well, #Kovrig & #Spavor have been locked up for 5+ months, which looks like an "arrest." But "arrest" here is "逮捕" -- a specific procedure that goes through prosecutors (aka the procuratorate or procuracy). 2/
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This means the cases are still in the investigation phase but now the prosecutors are directly involved as well as the public security forces. In garden-variety cases, Chinese prosecutors sometimes disagree with police (though very rarely in public). Do NOT expect that here. 3/
