China Announces Prison Sentence for Missing Human Rights Lawyer – China News

www.nytimes.com — China’s foreign minister waded into the mystery over the disappearance of one of the country’s most prominent human rights lawyers, but his remarks Tuesday shed little light on the lawyer’s fate. -- This is the same guy who the government said was "working" in Xinjiang last month. Guess that wasn't true.

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