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The disappeared: faces of human rights activists China wants to silence

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Chinese security forces have launched an unprecedented crackdown on the country’s human rights movement. More than 300 people have been interrogated or detained. Today, almost a year since that crackdown began, more than 20 lawyers and activists remain in custody facing political subversion charges.

Click on the photographs below to read profiles of 16 who remain in some form of detention.

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