Calls for animal cruelty laws face censorship in China amid crackdown on activism: Report

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Beijing, July 25 The recent case of a stray dog, nicknamed ‘Wang Wang’, has highlighted a rare avenue for public action in China, where independent civil society organisations — including labour unions, feminist and LGBTQ+ groups, rights-focused law firms, religious congregations and NGOs — have been systematically dismantled, a report has stated. On June 28, a horrific act of animal cruelty unfolded in a village in Jieyang, in China’s Guangdong province, where five boys — all under 14 — tortured and killed a stray mother dog, Wang Wang, along with her three puppies. They dragged her by a wire around…

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