China silencing human rights defenders - torture in secret facilities

China aid/Human rights watch

"Over the last five weeks, Chinese authorities have conducting a sweeping roundup of human rights lawyers and activists, interrogating and briefly detaining over 200 people,with 25 still in custody. Most of those 25 are being held in secret locations with no access to family or lawyers."

China Aid: "Human Rights Watch: Dispatches: Gagging the critics in China (full text):
http://www.chinaaid.org/2015/08/human-rights-watch-dispatches-gagging.html
"The last time this many human rights lawyers and activists were taken into custody in China was in 2011, when the government responded to an online call for an Arab Spring-style “Jasmine Revolution” by detaining and forcibly disappearing over 200 activists, some of them prominent lawyers, in a broad sweep. Many of them later described torture in secret facilities. Since then, the government has been trumpeting a supposed new commitment to “rule of law. --- the Chinese government is once again demonstrating that under “rule of law” in China today, the state always prevails."