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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10910
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) china

EU calls for release of civil society activists

Brussels, 29/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - On 28 August, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton called on the Chinese authorities to release Xu Zhiyong and all the other civil society activists who have been arrested or placed under house arrest for having expressed their opinions, albeit in a pacific manner. Ashton said that the EU is “deeply concerned by the arrest of Dr Xu Zhiyong on 21 August 2013 following his detention on 16 July, as well as by...