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PostSubject: Chinese activist Xu Zhiyong makes silent protest at kangaroo trial   Chinese activist Xu Zhiyong makes silent protest at kangaroo trial Icon_minitimeWed Jan 22, 2014 5:01 pm

A prominent Chinese rights advocate has refused to speak in court after appearing in a closely watched trial that his supporters say is “hypocritical” and threatens to make a mockery of the Chinese leadership’s recent promises of legal reform.

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Xu Zhiyong, a 40-year-old legal scholar, is the founder of the New Citizens Movement, a loosely-organised group that has called for greater social equality, judicial reform and for senior Chinese government officials to disclose their assets.

Mr Xu was detained last July after months of informal house arrest, and faces up to five years in jail on charges of “assembling a crowd to disrupt order in a public place”.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/chinese-activist-xu-zhiyong-makes-silent-protest-at-trial-20140122-hv9hp.html#ixzz2rAQnflzb
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