Chinese Rights Lawyer Calls For End to Travel Ban, Daughter in ICU


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Chinese rights lawyer Tang Jitian is shown in a file photo. AFP Chinese rights lawyer Tang Jitian on Friday called on the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to lift a travel ban and allow him to travel to visit his critically ill daughter in Japan. Tang's daughter, who lives in Japan, is currently critically ill with tuberculosis, but Tang has been slapped with a travel ban in the wake of years of advocacy for members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, victims of the tainted infant milk powder scandal and illegal land grabs, and people living with HIV/AIDS, among...