Joint statement by German and French foreign ministries on sentencing of legal scholar #XuZhiyong (14 years in jail) and human rights lawyers #DingJiaxi (12 years in jail) and detention of human rights lawyer #YuWensheng and his wife #XuYan
https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/-/2593742

This happened while Annalena Baerbock in Beijing. Can Germany and the world speak up against such human rights violations? Detaining people with offences like "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" simply because of exercising their freedom of expression is simply unacceptable.

https://twitter.com/the29principles/status/1647121406466084864
Urgent alert: Lawyer #YuWensheng and his wife #XuYan were criminally detained on suspicion of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble"....