Britain has taken the rare step of rebuking the Chinese authorities after UK officials and journalists were manhandled as they tried to cover the trial in Beijing of one of China’s leading civil rights lawyers.
Hugo Swire, Foreign Office minister, met Chen Fengxiang, a senior Communist party official, in London on Wednesday, while British diplomats raised their concerns in Beijing.
“We are extremely concerned by events surrounding the trial of Pu Zhiqiang,” said the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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