By Julie Inglese
Human
Rights Watch reports that China has arrested 50 activists since March, in
order to rein in dissent of the Communist regime. This included the rest of Xu Zhiyong, “the most prominent activist jailed since
Noble Peace Prize winner Liu Viaobo in 2009,” according to BusinessWeek.
Xu Zhiyong, a civil rights lawyer, is known in part for founding the New
Citizens’ Movement, an alliance of activists that promotes rule of
law and democracy in China.
“Any kind of challenge to
the authorities in the form of organized movement is still a big red line,” Maya Wang, a researcher with Human Rights Watch, told BusinessWeek. Xu’s sentence of four years
has proven this.
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