These are the people to whom Muscat and his henchman Konrat are selling Malta bit by bit
The young woman in this picture is a legal assistant. She and her husband are among those who have disappeared after the Chinese government began a crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists.
The Guardian reports today:
Nearly two weeks after Beijing launched one of its most comprehensive crackdowns on civil society in decades, at least six people remain missing – believed to have disappeared into the custody of China’s security services.
At least 238 people have now been detained or questioned since the clampdown began, according to the Hong Kong-based China Human Rights Lawyer Concern Group, which is keeping a tally of the operation’s targets.
The missing – who include a trainee lawyer, a legal assistant and the leader of an underground Christian church – have not been seen since 10 July, after authorities began a major round-up of Chinese human rights lawyers and their associates.
“We just really don’t know [what has happened to them],” said Maya Wang, the China researcher for Human Rights Watch.
Most of the six are likely to have been spirited away into some form of detention where they face the risk of ill treatment and torture, Wang added while others may have gone into hiding to escape such a fate.