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Communist China: Lawyer Tortured for Defending Falun Gong Clients

Communist China: Lawyer Tortured for Defending Falun Gong Clients
— “Yet another human rights lawyer in China has been arrested because he has chosen to defend Falun Gong practitioners’ right to freedom of belief.
— “Attorney Wang Yonghang, who is from northeast China’s harbour city Dalian, has taken the defense for several Falun Gong practitioners. He insists on upholding his profession’s code of ethics, and has refused to yield to the regime’s unofficial policy, which has mandated that there be ‘no legal defense of innocence for Falun Gong [adherents].'”