BEIJING (Reuters) - Six Chinese lawyers defending three activists who demanded officials disclose their wealth were assaulted, along with their clients' relatives, by hundreds of men outside a courthouse in southern China on Wednesday, one of the lawyers said.
The trial of Liu Ping, Li Sihua and Wei Zhongping is being closely watched by China's human rights community because it is the first prosecution of anti-graft activists and comes amid what rights groups have described as the first major crackdown against activists by the new government of President Xi Jinping.
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