We'd almost forgotten that you're not just a growing economic powerhouse but also a totalitarian regime that will stop at nothing to keep your ruling order in power in the name of "social harmony."
Not that the dangers of "national security" overreach are unique to the People's Republic, by any means, but it's good now and again to get a reminder of how it looks out in the open and unashamed.
China claims human rights lawyers were part of ‘criminal syndicate’
In the face of international condemnation for a mass roundup of human rights lawyers, China’s authorities have responded with what they claim is evidence of a “criminal syndicate” of rights activists and lawyers who purportedly galvanized public support for profit.
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