China rights lawyer reappears between repression

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China has launched one of the most prominent activists arrested since he was a major security crackdown launched two months ago to put an end to the protests in the Middle East, for inspiration. 

Jiang Tianyong, a human rights lawyer in Beijing, returned home last night and seems to be relatively well, his wife Jin Bianling said Wednesday. 

"I think he just wants to rest a bit, '" said Jin. 

Jiang was one of dozens of lawyers and activists are known in China, which have disappeared or been arrested for questioning prosecution subversion in recent weeks with the authoritarian government of China, apparently disoriented by the events in the Middle East and North Africa, has moved to crush dissent. 

The person most high-profile targeted by the authorities so far is Ai Weiwei, a famous Chinese artist and critic of the government, which had kept informal count of the recent arrests in Twitter before his death earlier this month. 

Beijing has also limited the report, highlighting the instability caused by the protests in Egypt and Libya, and Internet research was limited to remove content it deems politically sensitive. human rights argue that repression is on a scale and intensity not seen in years. 

Jiang was last seen Feb. 19, visiting his brother in a suburb of Beijing, where police grabbed him and threw him in a van. His death was seen as part of attempts by police to prevent any protests the next day, as requested by anonymous Internet resource. 

Jin said that the couple were not under control, but seemed to allude to any restrictions on what is allowed to disclose his death. He answered questions with the phrase: "It is not appropriate to say." 

The China-based rights group Chinese Human Rights Defenders said in an announcement Wednesday that the 18 other lawyers, activists and dissidents remain missing, including Teng Biao, a law professor at the China University of Political Science and Law and the rights lawyer Li Tiantian, who has been missing on the day of Jiang. 

Liu Xiaoyuan, a lawyer for another activist, said he returned Tuesday night after the officers identified themselves as belonging to the office of Beijing Public Security has taken him five days and interrogated him. Liu believes that took him because he is a friend of Ai, the artist, who had said before his disappearance that Liu would like to represent. 

"The police took me to a place that could not recognize and I asked for the cases he had worked in the past," Liu said. "But I had to do with Ai Weiwei."

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