Li Wenzu, rights activist and wife of arrested Chinese rights attorney Wang Quanzhang, has won a European human rights award for her”outstanding contribution” to the defense and promotion of human rights.
Li obtained the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law on her husband’s benefit in the German and French ambassadors to China on Wednesday in a joint service in Beijing hosted by the embassies of the two nations, she told RFA.
Fellow activists were prevented from attending the service from China’s state security authorities, and Li herself were followed all of the way into the embassy, simply making it indoors by reducing her security detail.
“The state security authorities discovered about my award, also posted officers out my door,” she explained. “They followed me the entire time, until I was eventually able to get in the embassy.”
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