Lawyer Wang Quanzhang, who took on sensitive cases of complaints of police torture and defended practitioners of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, went missing in August 2015 during a sweeping crackdown on rights activists. His wife, Li Wenzu, has since heard little about her husband's fate although authorities told her lawyer he had been detained. Neither Li nor the lawyer has been allowed to see him. She is being accompanied by Wang Qiaoling, wife of another prominent rights lawyer, Li Heping. Li said the authorities kept her under surveillance and she had kept her plan for her walk secret.

Source: The Star April 04, 2018 06:00 UTC