Another vocal critic of the Chinese government was arrested by police on Wednesday, a human rights group said, at around the same time as the artist Ai Weiwei walked out of jail.
The report of the detention of Xu Zhiyong, a civil rights lawyer, was a reminder that, for all the attention given to Mr Ai’s release, many more activists are still being held.
The scores of formal arrests, unofficial detentions and unexplained disappearances in recent months mark China’s most intense period of repression since the crackdown following the Tiananmen protests in 1989, campaigners say.
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