On February 3, Rights Defense Network quoted Xu Yan, the wife of Chinese rights lawyer Yu Wensheng, as releasing a news release: At about 5 p.m. that day, Xu Yan found out that Chinese justice still had not transferred lawyer Yu Wensheng back to the prison in Beijing, where he is domiciled, in accordance with the law and humanely. On Jan. 26, lawyer Yu Wensheng was cast to Nanjing prison, 1,045 kilometers away from Beijing, farther than the previous 718 kilometers away in Xuzhou City Detention Center.
Xu Yan said she had called Nanjing prison to make an appointment to visit Yu Wensheng, (but the prison) to prevent the meeting on the grounds of the Epidemic, she will definitely go to Nanjing as soon as possible to ask for visiting rights.
It is reported that Xu Yan checked with the Xuzhou City Detention Center on Wednesday and learned that Yu Wensheng had been transferred to prison around Jan. 16, but the exact location is unknown. Xu Yan was allowed to meet with her husband of three years by video on Jan. 14. Yu Wensheng’s teeth were missing, his face was pale and his hair was shaved.
Yu, who represented the lawyers arrested in 709, was detained by authorities after he published a citizen’s proposal to amend the constitution in early 2018. On June 17 last year, Yu was sentenced to four years in prison and three years of deprivation of political rights on charges of “inciting subversion of state power.
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