“I am witnessing a crime scene,” said Chen Zijuan, wife of detained human rights lawyer Chang Weiping, in a video posted on Twitter.
Chen made her video plea after she and other family members were blocked by police from attending her husband’s closed trial in northwestern Shaanxi Province on Tuesday.
“I’m so sorry that I was unable to be there for you in person despite traveling more than 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles) in the hope of seeing you with my own eyes,” Chen says in the video.
“But they have been holding me here on this highway for more than 10 hours now. I just heard from the lawyer that the trial is over already,” she says….