Three Chinese activists from a labour news website have been detained in southern China as Beijing ramps up a crackdown on labour activism across the country.
Yang Zhengjun, the editor-in-chief of news outlet New Generation, was detained in January while Wei Zhili and Ke Chengbing, two other editors from the same publication, were taken away last week.
“It feels like the situation in China is becoming increasingly tense and the authorities are coming down very harshly on an increasingly broad array of people,” said Zheng Churan, Wei’s wife who is also a member of China’s “Feminist Five”, a prominent group of women detained for organising a campaign against sexual harassment on public transport in 2015.