Commentary: China's Communist Party is as shadowy and repressive as when it took power 70 years ago
On Sept. 23, the wife of 38-year-old Chinese activist Wang Meiyu learned that her husband had died in a detention center in Hunan province, less than three months after the police detained him there. Wang had staged lone protests calling for President Xi Jinping to step down and allow democracy in China.
"He was a healthy, normal man when he went in there," Wang's widow told Radio Free Asia. "When I saw his (dead) body ... he was totally unrecognizable."
