The Canadian embassy in Beijing expressed concerns about two Chinese human rights lawyers who were dealt heavy sentences of more than a decade by the communist authorities, demanding their immediate release.
“We are deeply concerned by the sentencing of lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi to 14 and 12 years in prison. These human rights defenders were calling for transparency & civil rights. According to the UN, they were arbitrarily detained. We call for their unconditional release,” the Canadian embassy wrote in a Twitter statement on April 13.
Earlier that day, the embassy released a similar statement in simplified Chinese posted on Weibo, a frequently used social media platform in China….