‘Locked up in hell:’ China’s forced disappearances
By DW
14 May 2019 |
5:34 am
Since 2017, Chinese authorities have taken human rights lawyers, activists and writers to secret detention centers were deprived of freedom and dignity, they are expected to confess to crimes.
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