CCP SHUTTERS PROMINENT LAWYER’S FIRM AFTER HE PUBLICIZED “BARBARIC” PERSECUTION OF FALUN GONG
BEIJING (Washington Post)—Judicial authorities in Beijing have shut down the law firm of a prominent civil rights lawyer after he refused to withdraw an open letter urging President Hu Jintao to respect freedom of religion and stop persecuting members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement… “The persecution of Falun Gong compatriots by some local officials has already reached the point where they are doing whatever they please,” [lawyer] Gao [Zhisheng] wrote in the open letter. “We cannot accept these brazenly inhumane, savage atrocities to occur in the society of mankind in the 21st century.”

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