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Rights Website Founder Formally Arrested for Subversion in China’s HubeiRADIO FREE ASIA
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei have formally arrested Liu Feiyue, the founder of the Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch website, on subversion charges, fellow activists and relatives told RFA on Wednesday. Liu was detained on Nov. 17 for “incitement to subvert state power,” by police in Hubei’s Suizhou city and placed under formal arrest on Dec. 23. Liu, a veteran rights activist who founded Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch in 2006, has been targeted for police harassment in the past, and is routinely detained or placed …read more
Source: Victims of Communism