During a recent congressional hearing on human rights in China, Republican senator Chris Smith accused Xi Jinping of waging “an extraordinary assault on civil society and advocates for human rights”. With a superhero’s green and blue cape cascading down her back, Li Jiamei skipped into her Beijing nursery wielding a pink plastic sword. Two officers raced back to the lawyer’s home in his car, leaving young Li Jiamei with her mother. Li Heping has been missing since July 2015 when he was taken from his Beijing home by police. “I’ve decided I want to be a human rights lawyer,” she said.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2016 01:58 UTC