Chinese activists disappear amid calls for protests

Chinese activists disappear amid calls for protests

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Jiang Tianyong, an activist lawyer in Beijing, vanished Feb. 19, a day before the protests called for in Internet postings in the Chinese capital. Jiang has not been heard from since. The mysterious group running the website called this week for fresh protests Sunday.
Jiang and two other human rights lawyers, Tang Jitian and Teng Biao, have disappeared into China's labyrinthine security system in the past two weeks, says China Human Rights Defenders, a Hong Kong-based group. More than 100 other people have had their movements restricted, and six activists face subversion charges, possibly fo

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Very Orwellian and scary that there exist in this world countries where you can be picked up and whisked away and jailed for indefinite periods of time....
Sounds a lot like Guantanamo...

The Chinese government has created what it calls "no reporting zones" in areas of Shanghai and Beijing where the organizers have scheduled the silent protests.

If China isn't careful it will be as totalitarian as the US:
en.wikipedia.org...

And another case of Orwellian imprisonment:

The U.S. Embassy in Beijing says it has repeatedly raised with authorities the disappearance of Gao Zhisheng, a self-taught lawyer who has represented members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement and Chinese Christians. Gao was imprisoned for 14 months and upon his release in March last year described to the Associated Press how he was tortured by his jailers. He asked that his interview not be published until he was safe. Two weeks later, he vanished. China has refused to discuss his case with the United States or his relatives. The AP subsequently published a story about his interview.

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reply to post by Ozzy Mandias

If China isn't careful it will be as totalitarian as the US:
en.wikipedia.org...

Or maybe Canada.