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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Huizhong Wu

Chinese human rights lawyer chased out of 13 homes in 2 months as pressure rises on legal advocates

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A disbarred Chinese human rights lawyer has been forced to move 13 times in two months as part of a pattern of harassment against him and three other prominent rights advocates in Beijing that is further squeezing the country's battered civil rights community.

Wang Quanzhang said he is now living in a borrowed apartment in the suburbs where the power is frequently cut off, while another lawyer left Beijing entirely in hopes of ending the harassment.

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