‘Picking quarrels and provoking troubles’: Influential Chinese lawyer on trial for seven tweets

BEIJING — “Picking quarrels." In another time, in another place, Pu Zhiqiang might have chuckled at the charge. The Tiananmen Square survivor-turned civil rights lawyer has spent his life picking fights he ought to lose, defending labor camp survivors, journalists, and Ai Weiwei. If he had not spent the last 19 months in detention, blocked from […]











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