France’s largest newspaper Le monde published reports on 12th and 13th February 2006 entitled “Human Rights Activist in China Initiates Relay Hunger Strike”. The articles point out that China’s declining human rights situation and the Chinese Communist authorities’ escalating violence and persecution triggered off a relay hunger strike for human rights, with lawyers, journalists, law scholars and people of all levels of society taking part.
One of these people is lawyer Gao Zhisheng, “whose lawyer’s licence was confiscated last year by the authorities just because he defended practitioners of the Falun Gong cultivation movement, who are suffering cruel torture in Chinese jails.”
Le Monde also published a report on 8th February about the Chinese Communist Party’s recent suppression of the media and the evident escalation of the restriction on news media.
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