Chinese police are broadening their investigation into five detained female activists to focus on their campaigns against domestic violence and for more public toilets for women, their lawyers have said.
The women were taken into custody just before International Women’s Day on 8 March, and later detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, a charge that carries a prison term of up to five years, their lawyers said on Wednesday.
Supporters of the five women – Li Tingting, 25, Wei Tingting, 26, Wang Man, 32, Zheng Churan, 25, and Wu Rongrong, 30 – initially assumed they were picked up because of their plans to demonstrate against sexual harassment on buses and trains.
Even though what they were campaigning for was completely non political the Chinese Communist Party still saw these women as a threat.
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