The New York Times ran an interesting article yesterday about the detention of a Chinese lawyer, Xu Zhiyong. Mr. Xu is a lawyer/scholar who ran a legal clinic that handled a wide array of cases on behalf of vulnerable citizens. He handled cases for migrant workers, death row inmates and families whose children were sickened by poisoned milk. Mr. Xu's advocacy of the rule of law in China has not gone over well with the ruling Communist Party. As indicated by the article, the charges that are the basis for Mr. Xu's detention, tax evasion, are seen as a cover for the true motivation of his captivity, angering the ruling party. Read the article here.
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