Guangzhou-based labor and women’s rights activists Sophia Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing went missing Sunday, Sept. 19. Their friends fear detention. 1/5 
Wang was accompanying Huang to Shenzhen, from where she was supposed to travel on to Hong Kong and then fly to Britain Sept. 21 for the start of her master’s program at the University of Sussex. 2/5
Huang, an investigative journalist and one of the initiators of China’s #MeToo movement, this year received a Chevening Scholarship for graduate studies, funded by the British government. 3/5
Huang was detained for three months starting in October 2019 on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” after covering the Hong Kong protests in the summer of 2019 while she was studying law at Hong Kong University. wsj.com/articles/china… 4/5
Wang, an independent labor rights advocate, is assumed to be under investigation related to charges of subverting state power, according to people familiar with the situation. The charges are related to Wang having regular meetings with his friends at his apartment. 5/5
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