Lawyer Xu Zhiyong has spent nearly two decades fighting for human rights in China, and on Monday, he was handed one of the longest prison sentences ever issued for civil activism under Xi Jinping's crackdown on dissent.
Lawyer Xu Zhiyong has spent nearly two decades fighting for human rights in China, and on Monday he was handed one of the longest prison sentences ever issued for civil activism under Xi Jinping’s crackdown on dissent.
While evading authorities, Xu issued an open letter addressed to Xi, calling on him to resign – a strikingly blunt appeal that was swiftly censored on the Chinese internet. Publicly calling for a leader to step down is an extremely risky act in China, where political dissent is tightly suppressed and severely punished, especially under Xi.
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