China’s System of Mass Arbitrary Detention

“Sitting in a prison cell waiting for daybreak”: this is how Chinese legal activist Xu Zhiyong described the prospect of enduring a 14-year prison sentence, handed down by a Shandong court in 2023. Xu’s “crime”? Advocating for civil liberties.  Xu Qin, 63, was sentenced to four years in prison whenContinue Reading