GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office on Friday denounced China's "ongoing crackdown" and detention of lawyers and activists and called on authorities to release all those being held for exercising what it called fundamental freedoms.
It voiced concern at reports that defence lawyer Chen Jiangang and his family were taken by police on Wednesday while travelling in the southwest province of Yunnan. His whereabouts remained unknown, though his wife and two children were released.
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