Chinese Police Detain Wife of Rights Activist – Maureen Fan

From the Washington Post:

The wife of a blind legal activist was detained by police for eight hours Tuesday, then dragged out of a police minivan and dropped on the ground at the entrance to her home village, sobbing uncontrollably, lawyers and a relative said.

Yuan Weijing was held a day after her husband was retried in a case closely watched by human rights activists. Attorneys for her husband, Chen Guangcheng, suggested that she had been detained so she could not travel to Beijing to complain about mistreatment of her family by officials. [Full text]

- Read more about Chen’s case, via CDT, including an op-ed Yuan Weijing wrote for the Washington Post.