Families separated, careers destroyed — meet the human rights lawyers taking extraordinary risks in China.
Li Wenzu has not seen her husband for close to a year. And although she knows where he is, and has tried to visit several times, even talking on the phone is impossible.
"No-one's been able to see him, there's been no information on his condition," she said.
"If he's been tortured, we don't have the faintest clue."
Her husband, lawyer Wang Quanzhang, is behind bars in a detention centre, a 40-minute fast train ride from their home in Beijing.
His crime was taking on cases deemed too politically sensitive, from representing farmers in land disputes to pro-democracy activists.
China cracks down on human rights lawyers challenging the system - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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