Chinese authorities have detained well-known human rights lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, in what seems to be an attempt to deter activists from marking the 25th anniversary of the brutal military suppression of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square reports The Guardian.
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Two of Pu’s close friends, the Beijing activist Hu Jia and Shanghai lawyer Si Weijiang, said the detention was likely to be the authorities’ retaliation against Pu for attending a seminar in Beijing on Saturday 3 May 2014 to discuss the military crackdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on 4 June 1989.
Pu has not been formally indicted and Beijing police said they had no immediate comment to make.
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