Chinese Blogger Still Denied Lawyer After 4 Months' Detention
Via Reporters sans Frontières.
The Public Security Bureau’s formal refusal on 17 May to allow detained blogger and documentary filmmaker Hao Wu access to a lawyer on national security grounds is “absurd,” Reporters Without Borders said today, as Hao began his fourth month in detention.More here.
A formal request for Hao to be defended by a lawyer was filed with the PSB by his sister, Na Wu, who has reported on her blog: “It appears that all efforts to seek legal help have reached a dead end.”
According to the authorities, Hao is currently under “house arrest.” He cannot receive visits or telephone his family. The PSB is also still refusing to tell him why he has been arrested. But it has reportedly undertaken to make a statement to the family by August, which would be six months after his arrest.
posted by Fergie @ 5/22/2006 01:25:00 PM
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