Rights lawyer is feared arrested
A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer has disappeared, according to family members and fellow activists, who fear he may have been seized by police as part of a pre-Olympics crackdown.
Teng Biao, 34, a lecturer at the China University of Political Science and Law, assisted a blind activist who was jailed after exposing abuses in enforcement of China’s one-child-only policy.
More recently, he urged the government to release Hu Jia, a Beijing AIDS activist arrested in December on charges of subversion, and said the Olympic Games had prompted Chinese officials to trample on human rights.
According to Teng’s wife, Wang Ling, the lawyer disappeared about 9 p.m. Thursday.
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