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China Daily: Legal Help Group Told to Pack Up（With Video)

Reporting on the shuttering of a Beijing-based legal assistance group, Gongmeng (Open Constitution Initiative), this China Daily article, written by Zhu Zhe and Cui Xiaohuo, shows clear sympathy to the case by highlighting lawyer Xu Zhiyong’s quote: More than a dozen officials of Beijing’s civil affairs bureau, which oversees civil groups in the capital, visited the center’s offic