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'709 Crackdown' five years on

August 1, 2020

After spending five years in prison, human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang is trying to get his life back together. Wang was among more than 200 Chinese lawyers and human rights activists detained in a wave of arrests that began on July 9, 2015, and later became known as the "709 Crackdown."

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