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"....

RT @Peterinexile: Lawyer #YuWensheng and @xuyan709 placed under house arrest, entirely w/o legal procedure, as outlined in one of @SafeguardDefend recent reports, #HomeAsPrison. They join perhaps a million others who have faced #HouseArrests since #XiJinping came to power.

https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/home-becomes-prison-china-s-expanding-use-house-arrests-under-xi-jinping

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/BasBelderMEP/status/1581411358620647424

被囚人权律师 #余文生 #YuWensheng 获得2021年马丁·恩纳尔斯人权捍卫者奖 #MartinEnnalsAward。

他是一名良心犯，仅因为行使言论自由权被监禁。

中国必须立刻无条件释放 #余文生，并停止打压律师、活动人士和其他和平倡议人权的人。

我们声援余文生的妻子
@xuyan709
继续争取让余文生获释。

https://www.martinennalsaward.org/yu-wensheng-named-martin-ennals-award-laureate-2021/