On 8 May 2017 AFP reported that human rights lawyer Xie Yang – according to a Chinese court – had admitted to getting “brainwashed” overseas. One cannot but wonder about how ‘public opinion’ in China itself receives the news of these ‘confessions’. There have been quite a few earlier cases (see e.g. https://humanrightsdefenders.blog/2016/08/02/another-chinese-human-rights-lawyer-wang-yu-spontaneous-video-confession/) which the outside world has generally has dismissed as forced, but it is quite likely that the ‘home market’ is less critical (why would the authorities otherwise persist is this habit?). Read the rest of this entry »
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Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 