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06-06-2017, 07:45 AM
BEIJING: A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who disappeared late last year has been officially charged with "subversion of state power", his wife said on Monday, after his case attracted international attention.
Jiang Tianyong took on numerous high-profile cases, including those of Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetan protesters and victims of the 2008 contaminated milk powder scandal before being disbarred for his activism in 2009.
Jiang’s father received official **tification of his arrest last Thursday, according to Jiang’s wife Jin Bianling, who currently lives in the US where she fled in 2013 to escape harassment from Chinese authorities.
The family has **t had contact with Jiang since his sudden disappearance on **vember 21 en route from Beijing to Changsha, the capital of the central province of Hunan, where he had gone to enquire about a detained human rights lawyer.
In the six months since Jiang disappeared "we have **t spoken, his lawyers have **t been allowed to see him, and we didn’t k**w where he was being held," Jin told AFP.
"**w at least we k**w where he is."
Jiang’s treatment, according to Amnesty International China researcher Patrick Poon, "violates international human rights standards on protection of the rights to a legal counsel, and Jiang can ** way be given a fair trial in such manner."
In the years leading up to his detention, Jiang had repeatedly met foreign officials and politicians, including high-ranking visitors from the US, to discuss China’s human rights situation.
UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston met Jiang on a visit to China in August and said he feared the disappearance was in part retaliation for the lawyer’s assistance to UN experts
In written testimony to the US Congress last month, Jia said her husband’s troubles began after he addressed the legislature during a visit to the US in October 2009.
Jiang was placed under house arrest the following month, during a visit by then-US President Barack Obama to China, she said.
In the years since then he was repeatedly detained and beaten by police, she added.
"The long-term harassment and threats consumed me. I even thought of suicide," she wrote, adding that police were also following his parents.
Jiang disappeared last **vember on his way to visit a**ther rights lawyer, Xie Yang, who was detained in the "709 *****down" of 2015.
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Jiang Tianyong took on numerous high-profile cases, including those of Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetan protesters and victims of the 2008 contaminated milk powder scandal before being disbarred for his activism in 2009.
Jiang’s father received official **tification of his arrest last Thursday, according to Jiang’s wife Jin Bianling, who currently lives in the US where she fled in 2013 to escape harassment from Chinese authorities.
The family has **t had contact with Jiang since his sudden disappearance on **vember 21 en route from Beijing to Changsha, the capital of the central province of Hunan, where he had gone to enquire about a detained human rights lawyer.
In the six months since Jiang disappeared "we have **t spoken, his lawyers have **t been allowed to see him, and we didn’t k**w where he was being held," Jin told AFP.
"**w at least we k**w where he is."
Jiang’s treatment, according to Amnesty International China researcher Patrick Poon, "violates international human rights standards on protection of the rights to a legal counsel, and Jiang can ** way be given a fair trial in such manner."
In the years leading up to his detention, Jiang had repeatedly met foreign officials and politicians, including high-ranking visitors from the US, to discuss China’s human rights situation.
UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston met Jiang on a visit to China in August and said he feared the disappearance was in part retaliation for the lawyer’s assistance to UN experts
In written testimony to the US Congress last month, Jia said her husband’s troubles began after he addressed the legislature during a visit to the US in October 2009.
Jiang was placed under house arrest the following month, during a visit by then-US President Barack Obama to China, she said.
In the years since then he was repeatedly detained and beaten by police, she added.
"The long-term harassment and threats consumed me. I even thought of suicide," she wrote, adding that police were also following his parents.
Jiang disappeared last **vember on his way to visit a**ther rights lawyer, Xie Yang, who was detained in the "709 *****down" of 2015.
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