China blocks meeting with dissidents

Posted on July 2, 2008 6:25 AM | | Comments (0)

U.S. News & World Report
July 01, 2008

Police blocked Chinese dissident lawyers from attending a meeting with two visiting U.S. lawmakers, the lawmakers and a human rights groups said Tuesday. Police either took the lawyers away or placed them under house arrest before they were due to have dinner with visiting Republican Reps. Frank Wolf of Virginia and Chris Smith of New Jersey. The congressmen told reporters that such moves underscore what many activists and monitoring groups say is a deterioration of human rights ahead of next month's Olympic Games.

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