WASHINGTON: The United States denounced on Wednesday (Oct 11) the deportation of a prominent human rights lawyer from Laos to his native China, calling for details on his whereabouts and assurances on the ailing activist's access to medical care.
Lu Siwei was one of the lawyers appointed by the families of a Hong Kong activist group that was intercepted by authorities in 2020 while attempting to flee the city by boat to Taiwan.
"The United States condemns the forced repatriation of People's Republic of China national and human rights lawyer Lu Siwei to the PRC from Laos, at the request of PRC authorities," US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement, using China's official name. In this UGC image made from video by a source wishing to remain anonymous, one of the two activists, left, travelling with Chinese rights lawyer Lu Siwei, right, argues with police who were in the process of detaining Lu, near the Thanaleng dry port, 13km, south of Vientiane on Friday, July 28, 2023. in Hong Kong that erupted in 2019, Beijing has cracked down on legal professionals offering activists representation, in a campaign critics have slammed as an attempt to silence dissent.
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