ICC Note:

Casting an increasingly wider net against human rights activists, China has now detained the tenant of the apartment owned by the brother of the Christian human rights activist, Jiang Tianyong. It seems China will stop at nothing to silence those who disagree with Beijing. We recently shared the story of Jin Bianling, the wife of Jiang Tianyong, a Christian human rights lawyer who disappeared in his attempt to help other detained lawyers. Now it has been confirmed that the Jiang’s brother’s apartment has been raided, and the tenant has disappeared, and man with no connection to Jiang. His cell phone has been switched off and it is believed he is in police custody.

12/16/2016 China (China Aid) – Plainclothes authorities raided the apartment of the brother of a missing human rights lawyer on Dec. 4 and have been holding one of its tenants incommunicado ever since, the lawyer’s wife confirmed today.

In a report given to China Aid, Jin Bianling, the wife of disappeared human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong, verified that public security bureau officials raided her brother-in-law’s apartment, possibly to ascertain whether or not it contained any of her husband’s personal belongings. Recently, the brother began renting the space to Mo Xiaowei, a person who has no connection to Jiang. However, government personnel took Mo into police custody and switched off his phone. Since then, no one has been able to contact him.

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