A Chinese human rights lawyer who recently underwent trial said he was \u00ab\u00a0brainwashed\u00a0\u00bb in Hong Kong and South Korea, according to a Chinese court proceedings.<\/b>
\nMay 9 (UPI) — A Chinese human rights lawyer who recently underwent trial said he was \u00ab\u00a0brainwashed\u00a0\u00bb in Hong Kong and South Korea, according to a Chinese court proceeding transcripts.
Xie Yang, 45, who has been in detention since July 2015 after representing activists and land-grab victims, may have been tortured while in custody, according to his wife and Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a U. S.-based charity organization.
Xie’s wife, Chen Guiqiu, said lengthy interrogations, sleep deprivation, beatings and death threats may have compelled Xie to \u00ab\u00a0confess\u00a0\u00bb to subversive acts against the state.
According to transcripts of the court proceedings, the lawyer said he was responsible for \u00ab\u00a0misleading the public\u00a0\u00bb and for engaging in \u00ab\u00a0brainwashing\u00a0\u00bb training sessions in Hong Kong and South Korea, where he learned \u00ab\u00a0wrong ideas such as Western constitutionalism, \u00a0\u00bb the South China Morning Post reported .
The transcripts stated Xie said he was introduced to the idea of \u00ab\u00a0overthrowing the existing system and achieving Western constitutionalism in China.\u00a0\u00bb
The Hong Kong-based China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group reportedly organized the session in South Korea.
China’s court transcripts stated the event in Korea was \u00ab\u00a0organized by the Hong Kong government to study South Korea’s judicial system.\u00a0\u00bb
Albert Ho Chun-yan, chairman of the lawyers group in Hong Kong, said the organization often hosts exchanges with mainland rights lawyers like Xie.
Ho said the claim the Hong Kong government sponsored the trip is \u00ab\u00a0problematic.\u00a0\u00bb
Xi has been charged with \u00ab\u00a0inciting subversion of state power and disrupting court order, \u00a0\u00bb according to the BBC.<\/p>\n

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