Prominent Chinese lawyer and lecturer Xu Zhiyong stood trial in Beijing on Wednesday after he was arrested last July on charges of ‘gathering people to disturb order in a public place’ and, as western diplomats have been barred from attending trial, unsurprisingly, petitioners and reporters were equally unwelcome outside of the court room, some journalists even describing being harassed and ‘roughed up’ by police.
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