China: lawyers detained
Three Chinese human rights lawyers and an unknown number of other citizens remain in detention after being taken away by police on March 21 while visiting a ‘black jail’ in Jiansanjiang, Heilongjiang Province.
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At least one of the lawyers, Tang Jitian, has been given a 15-day administrative sentence for ‘using a cult to disrupt social order’. It is not clear what charges have been brought against the other detainees.
