ICC Note:

A human rights lawyer that helped in the cases of approximately 100 cases of cross demolition involving churches has resurfaced after disappearing. Zhang Kai was summoned to the police office and detained for 48 hours before being released. Although Zhang has grown quite accustomed to being detained, the family was particularly worried this time, since China has begun to torture human rights defenders to force confessions for crimes. In 2015 spent six months in detention at an undisclosed locations, a practice referred to as “black jail” and was forced to confess to “endangering state secrets” and “gathering a crowd to disturb public order.”

12/30/2016 China (China Aid) – After spending two days in police custody, Christian human rights lawyer Zhang Kai was allowed to return to his parents’ home in China’s northern Inner Mongolia yesterday.

On the morning of Dec. 27, officials from various public security bureaus from across the country summoned him to his local police station. Zhang Kai’s sister, Zhang Yan, claimed that he often receives these summons, since he is currently released on bail after his previous detention, but this time, they kept him for 48 hours, concerning the family when he failed to return home.

When his mother posted an urgent call for the online community to pay attention to her son’s case, the news spread, and one social media user speculated: “They might do something like they did to Yang Hua and frame him with something involving state secrets and use this as a means to arrest him.”

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