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Xu Zhiyong: An Account of My Recent Disappearance

Xu Zhiyong, noted Chinese rights lawyer and legal activist, was detained on June 7th following a recent blog entry calling for a “new civic movement” in China. He was released the next day, and described on his blog how security officers covered his head with a black cloth and took him to a hotel room on the outskirts of Beijing. From Yaxue Cao at Seeing Red in China: Having traveled for about hal

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