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From Freedom House:

In response to China’s recent  detention  of at least 24 human rights lawyers. and the forcible repatriation to China of members of the Uighur minority from self-imposed exile in Thailand, Freedom House issued the following statement:

“In addition to overt crackdowns, China’s limiting the issuance of passports to ethnic minorities violates international human rights standards,” said Mark P. Lagon, president. “Freedom House welcomes the U.S. State Department’s condemnation of the deportations and detentions. The U.S. government should raise the cost to the Chinese state of its repression by revisiting the United States 2014 visa validity extension policy, and require non-discriminatory issuance of papers for international travel.”

Beijing (dpa) – More than 100 human rights lawyers and activists from 15 cities and provinces in China have been detained, have disappeared or summoned by police in a nationwide crackdown, according to rights groups. Eighty-two of the 106 arrested in the past four days have since been released, the Hong Kong-based Human Rights Lawyers Concern…