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More on #709crackdown: On the fifth anniversary of the crackdown, @jeromeacohen told me in an interview that while the scale of #Beijing's crackdown on human rights lawyers hasn't increased since 2015, the crackdown has become a permanent process.
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"I don’t think the scale and intensity of the 709 crackdown has increased since 2015 but surely what was originally thought to be a campaign of limited duration, like other “crackdowns”, has now became a permanent, ongoing process."
"This is because the original crackdown has not wiped out its targets, despite the grievous losses it has caused to human rights lawyers, their clients and their families."
Latest - On the fifth anniversary of the #709crackdown, I talked to two wives of human rights lawyers, @xuyan709 and @jinbianling, as well as a lawyer who was targeted in 2015 about #Beijing's crackdown on lawyers and whether the situation has changed.
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"“After they refused to show their identification cards, my husband refused to let them in. They used a chainsaw to break the metal door on the outside, and I could still remember the terrifyingly loud noise," said @xuyan709.
"Once they broke into my house, they forced my husband to the ground and handcuffed his hands to his back."
THREAD: I promised I'd try my abest to #FactcheckChina at today's #ChinaUPR. But I find that's rather hard when the delegation statement isn't available online...
But as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Here are a few choice selections from the China PR campaign.
But as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Here are a few choice selections from the China PR campaign.
The whole point of protecting #HumanRights is to ensure equality for those who are NOT "the overwhelming majority". But it appear that #XiJinping Thought would have it otherwise.
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#FactCheckChina
A colourful photo of streetlife in #Xinjiang. Which also happens to have seen a massive expansion of camps/detention facilities since 2016, where one might be locked up arbitrarily for simple religious expression. #FactcheckChina
