#Huang_Qi, Online Dissident and Rights Advocate in China, Faces Trial
One of China’s most prominent human rights activists, the blogger Huang Qi, went on trial on Monday on charges of leaking state secrets, and American diplomats seeking to attend the proceedings said they had been denied access.
The trial has drawn intense international attention, in part because Mr. Huang, 55, has nephritis, a potentially fatal kidney disease. In addition, Mr. Huang’s 85-year-old mother recently traveled from their home in Sichuan Province to Beijing to ask foreign embassies there for help in obtaining his release, but she was reportedly beaten and is now detained in a hospital.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/world/asia/china-trial-huang-qi.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&actio
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