The wife of a prominent human rights lawyer who disappeared for two months amid a massive Chinese security crackdown says her husband has returned home and appears to be well.
In this Friday, July 17, 2009 file photo, Chinese lawyer Jiang Tianyong looks at the half empty office of the Gongmeng rights group's legal research center after it was closed down by Chinese authorities in Beijing, China. The last time the prominent Chinese lawyer Jiang was seen or heard from, he was visiting his brother in a Beijing suburb when police grabbed him and threw him into a waiting van, pushing aside his elderly mother who had clung on to the vehicle. Jiang is among dozens of well-known lawyers and activists across China who have vanished, been interrogated or criminally detained for subversion in recent weeks, in a crackdown that human rights groups say is on a scale and intensity not seen in many years. Activists say China's massive security apparatus is using the government's anxiety over possible Middle East-inspired protests as a pretext for the crackdown. BEIJING (AP) — The wife of a prominent human rights lawyer who disappeared for two months amid a massive Chinese security crackdown says her husband has returned home and appears to be well.
The wife of Beijing attorney Jiang Tianyong says that he returned home Tuesday evening. Wife Jin Bianling said Wednesday Jiang just wanted to "rest for a while" and that it was not convenient to talk.
Jiang disappeared on Feb. 19 as he was visiting his brother in a Beijing suburb. Police grabbed him and threw him into a waiting van.
He is among dozens of well-known lawyers and activists across China who have vanished, been interrogated or criminally detained for subversion in recent weeks. Human rights groups say the crackdown is on a scale not seen in many years.