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17 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
25 hours after he arrived in Xian, #China to visit the detained Chinese human rights lawyer Chang Weiping, Chinese human rights Xie Yang remains missing.
According to information provided by Xie's wife, police in Xian took him and another human rights lawyer Chen Keyun to a five star hotel and put them under detention. They confiscated both lawyers' phones and identification cards. Three police reportedly tried to take Xie ...
... back to Changsha, where he is based and now he remains out of touch with people around him.
Last week, Xie and 8 other human rights lawyers and their family members were arrested and detained by police in Chengdu while they tried to attend the hearing of another human rights lawyer Lu Siwei. Xie was reportedly tackled to the ground by police and he got injured.

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Latest: The Trump administration made a series of surprising moves regarding Asia policy over the last week, while @JoeBiden revealed the candidate for the new role overseeing Indo-Pacific region. I talked to @kharisborloff about what these mean: williamyang-35700.medium.com/the-trump-admi…
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