Investigations reveal "torture stories" about Chinese lawyer Xie Yang are nothing but cleverly orchestrated lies
Xinhua said Jiang Tianyong, a prominent human rights lawyer, had invented the story and shared it with foreign activists.
The heated commentary in the Chinese news media came in response to foreign coverage of a Chinese lawyer, Xie
Yang, whose account of torture at the hands of interrogators was widely reported in January, including in .
“Trump’s attacks on the media will offer a good excuse for Chinese officials to step up their criticism of Western democracy
and press freedom,” said Qiao Mu, a journalism professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Experts said on Friday that Mr. Trump’s continuing attacks on the news media would help lend
credibility to Chinese efforts to undermine Western ideals and foreign journalists.
