The United Nations human rights chief has expressed concern over China's mounting crackdown on lawyers and government critics, describing recent arrests of activists as a "very worrying pattern." Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner, urgedChina to immediately release a group of detained human rights lawyers. Chinese authorities launched a crackdown on lawyers and their relatives last July, interrogating and detaining more than 200 across the country. Read more
