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China's Plan for Secret Detentions Alarms Rights Activists

This spring, several lawyers and activists, such as artist Ai Weiwei, were secretly detained by authorities in China with no official explanation of their whereabouts. Human rights activists and others spoke out against the Chinese government for this apparent violation of Chinese law. Now, the National People’s Congress is considering the Criminal Procedure Law to make such detentions legal.