Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Detained in Beijing While Traveling to Meet EU Delegation
Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan were detained Thursday in Beijing when they were en route to meet a delegation from the European Union. Yu is one of the most courageous rights lawyers in China active in defending the rights of dissidents and ethnic and religious groups. He won the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law in 2018 and the Martin Ennals Award in 2021 for his achievements. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock visited China from April 13–15. She told reporters that she expressed her concerns that “the scope for civil society engagement in China is continuing to shrink and human rights are being curtailed” after she met Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. Lin Xin (a pseudonym name for safety), a friend of the family, told The Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times on April 15 that he learned about the arrest from Yu’s son, who is a middle school student. Lin said that it is most urgent for the couple to meet their lawyers. Yu’s teenage son currently has no one to take care of him. Chen Jiangang, a Chinese human rights lawyer now living in the United States, posted on Twitter on April 15 that police formerly notified Yu’s son at 1 p.m. on April 15 that Yu and his wife have both been detained for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a common charge under article 293 of China’s Criminal Law that the regime uses to target critics. Yu’s wife Xu Yan told the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times at 4:30 p.m. on April 13 that both of them were being taken by several police to the Bajiao police station in Shijingshan District in the west of Beijing. “We are not allowed to go to the embassy [to meet the EU delegation],” she told The Epoch Times. The Epoch Times called Xu Yan’s mobile phone multiple times on April 14, which replied that “the number you dialed is not available. ” According to Xu’s post on Twitter at 6:13 p.m., April 13, she and her husband were forced into a car, and the driver, the man in the front passenger seat, and several men in plain clothes were police. 要带余文生律师和许艳，去八角派出所。主要原因是，说因为要去使馆。请求大家关注
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Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan were detained Thursday in Beijing when they were en route to meet a delegation from the European Union.
Yu is one of the most courageous rights lawyers in China active in defending the rights of dissidents and ethnic and religious groups. He won the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law in 2018 and the Martin Ennals Award in 2021 for his achievements.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock visited China from April 13–15. She told reporters that she expressed her concerns that “the scope for civil society engagement in China is continuing to shrink and human rights are being curtailed” after she met Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang.
Lin Xin (a pseudonym name for safety), a friend of the family, told The Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times on April 15 that he learned about the arrest from Yu’s son, who is a middle school student.
Lin said that it is most urgent for the couple to meet their lawyers. Yu’s teenage son currently has no one to take care of him.
Chen Jiangang, a Chinese human rights lawyer now living in the United States, posted on Twitter on April 15 that police formerly notified Yu’s son at 1 p.m. on April 15 that Yu and his wife have both been detained for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a common charge under article 293 of China’s Criminal Law that the regime uses to target critics.
Yu’s wife Xu Yan told the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times at 4:30 p.m. on April 13 that both of them were being taken by several police to the Bajiao police station in Shijingshan District in the west of Beijing.
“We are not allowed to go to the embassy [to meet the EU delegation],” she told The Epoch Times.
The Epoch Times called Xu Yan’s mobile phone multiple times on April 14, which replied that “the number you dialed is not available. ”
According to Xu’s post on Twitter at 6:13 p.m., April 13, she and her husband were forced into a car, and the driver, the man in the front passenger seat, and several men in plain clothes were police.
要带余文生律师和许艳，去八角派出所。主要原因是，说因为要去使馆。请求大家关注
