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Experts Renew Call for Probe Into Death of Cao Shunli

On March 14, 2014, lawyer and rights activist Cao Shunli died after being denied medical treatment while in detention for participating in a sit-in outside of the Foreign Ministry in Beijing to call for public participation in a U.N. human rights review. She had initially been detained on September 14, 2013 at the Beijing airport while attempting to travel to Geneva for training ahead of China’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the U.N. Human Rights Council,