China has ordered lawyers to swear allegiance to the Communist party, tightening its grip on legal activists.
Since online calls early last year for an Arab spring-style revolution, Beijing has detained scores of lawyers and activists in what campaigners say has been China’s most sustained period of repression in more than a decade.
In a notice on its website, the justice ministry said that new lawyers and those renewing their licences to practise would have to take an oath of loyalty.
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