{"id":409929,"date":"2011-04-30T07:57:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T07:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/30\/rights-group-one-chinese-lawyer-freed-another-goes-missing\/"},"modified":"2011-04-30T07:57:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T07:57:57","slug":"rights-group-one-chinese-lawyer-freed-another-goes-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/30\/rights-group-one-chinese-lawyer-freed-another-goes-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights group: One Chinese lawyer freed, another goes missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"75.1480865225\">\n<div readability=\"61.5501519757\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teng Biao is freed after 70 days in custody<\/li>\n<li>Soon after his release, another lawyer is seized by unknown people<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen a serious backsliding in human rights,&#8221; a top U.S. diplomat says<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Beijing, China (CNN)<\/strong> &#8212; Chinese authorities freed a prominent lawyer held for more than two months shortly after a U.S. official called for his release, a rights group said.<\/p>\n<p>Teng Biao was released Friday after 70 days in custody, according to a U.S. Embassy spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>China Human Rights Defenders also confirmed that he was no longer detained.<\/p>\n<p>His release comes after two days of talks between the U.S. and China in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen a serious backsliding in human rights,&#8221; said Michael Posner, assistant U.S. secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor.<\/p>\n<p>During his meetings with Chinese officials, Posner highlighted the lawyer&#8217;s case along with a host of other activists, artists and religious groups.<\/p>\n<p>Posner said Thursday that relations between the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.cnn.com\/topics\/United_States\">United States<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/SPECIALS\/china\/\">China<\/a> could suffer as a result of the crackdown on activists following calls for a revolution in February.<\/p>\n<p>However, celebration of his release was quickly muted when another lawyer was taken into custody soon after.<\/p>\n<p>Li Fangping was seized by unidentified people while leaving an office building in Beijing and has been out of contact since then, according to China Human Rights Defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Li has represented several high-profile individuals, including lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who remains under house arrest in Shangdong Province following his release from prison.<\/p>\n<p>He also defended Zhao Lianhai, an outspoken food safety activist and parent of a child contaminated by melamine-tainted milk powder in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>China Human Rights Defenders said Li told his wife by phone on Friday that &#8220;I may be gone for a period of time &#8230; can&#8217;t talk more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to contact Li since then have gone unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Releasing Dr. Teng is welcoming news, but China cannot continue to play this game of letting one go and taking another in if China wants to be seen as a responsible international partner,&#8221; Bob Fu, founder of the nongovernmental organization China Aid, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Calls to Chinese officials for comment were not returned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[Read more here|Read the original here|Read more from the original source|Continued here|Read more|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original here|Originally posted here|Here is the original post|See the original post|The rest is here|Read the rest here|See the rest here|Go here to read the rest|Go here to see the original|See the original post here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|See the article here|Read this article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> STORY HIGHLIGHTS Teng Biao is freed after 70 days in custody Soon after his release, another lawyer is seized by unknown people &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen a serious backsliding in human rights,&#8221; a top U.S. diplomat says Beijing, China (CNN) &#8212; Chinese authorities freed a prominent lawyer held for more than two months shortly after a U.S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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