Tag: Magnitsky sanctions

activists Andrew Nathan Angela Merkel arbitrary detention arrests Black Friday 2015 Black Friday trials Cao Shunli CCTV CECC Chen Guangcheng Christopher Smith communist party congressional hearing detention diplomacy donald Trump ethnic minority forced confessions Fu Zhenghua Gao Zhisheng Germany

From Merkel to Magnitsky: Pressuring China on Rights

Liu Xia’s departure from China to Berlin three weeks ago appeared sudden after almost a year of frustrated hopes for her release from house arrest. As Mimi Lau describes in detail at South China Morning Post, however, it was the result of an "aggressive 15-month campaign of quiet German diplomacy" that began soon before the death of her husband, imprisoned Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo. “[The Chinese] always say quiet diplomacy works best to resolve differences,