Taipei Times
Date: Dec 02, 2016
By: Cheng Hung-ta / Staff reporter
Legislators across party lines yesterday called on China to release human rights lawyer Jiang
Taiwan Association of Human Rights vice secretary-general Shih Yi-hsiang, right, yesterday speaks at a news conference in Taipei, calling on China to release human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong. Photo: CNA
Tianyong (江天勇), who has been missing since Monday last week after he visited a relative of an imprisoned human rights advocate in China’s Hunan Province.
Jiang went to Changsha to visit the wife of jailed lawyer Xie Yang (謝陽) on Nov. 21, but Jiang went missing after making a call to his wife informing her of his planned return to Beijing, reports said.
Jiang’s wife and parents have attempted to file police reports with Chinese authorities in Beijing, Changsha and Zhengzhou, but they were deliberately thwarted, the reports said.
Jiang was an attorney in human rights cases, including one involving Chinese human rights advocate Chen Guangcheng (陳光誠), an expropriate dispute between the local government and private petroleum companies in Shaanxi Province, and a case involving the rights of people with HIV/AIDS. [FULL STORY]
