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The Lawyers Who Vanished: Suppression of Political Dissent on the Rise in China
The Chinese government recently sentenced a lawyer at a human rights firm to seven years in prison, one of hundreds of such convictions since mid-2015. Sonny Stephens walks us through Xi Jinping’s campaign to crack down on anti-government dissent and use of filmed public confessions to discredit his enemies.