Legal Rights Advocate on Trial

Posted on July 12, 2007 4:18 AM | | Comments (0)

By Joseph Kahn | The New York Times
July 10, 2007

A legal rights organizer who helped peasants protest local officials in Guangdong Province was put on trial on charges of illegal business activity. The organizer, Guo Feixiong, had repeatedly called on China’s Communist Party leadership to liberalize the political system. His wife and supporters in the international human rights community said that Mr. Guo had been tortured in custody and that the police had coerced him to confess to a nonpolitical crime. No verdict was announced.

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