Swiss Embassy Posts Criticism on Weibo

It doesn’t often happen that Switzerland publicly advocates human rights in China. But with the Winter Olympics in full swing, the Swiss embassy in Beijing did just that, Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported.

The embassy posted on Twitter and the Chinese counterpart Weibo the case of human rights lawyer Tang Jitian, who has been missing for over two months. The post was deleted on Weibo within 24 hours.

Read the full report: Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

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George Russell

George Russell is a freelance writer and editor based in Hong Kong who has lived in Asia since 1996. His work has been published in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, New York Post, Variety, Forbes and the South China Morning Post.