US State Department honours Chinese activist Ding Jiaxi as a ‘global human rights defender’


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Chinese dissident Ding Jiaxi is one of 10 activists the US State Department named as honorees Wednesday of its 2023 annual Global Human Rights Defender Awards.

Ding, an engineer turned lawyer, is one of the highest-profile targets of China’s crackdown on human rights lawyers and legal scholars.

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