Wife shaves head to protest detention of rights lawyer husband

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The wives of four of China's most prominent rights lawyers and activists shaved their heads on Monday (December 17) in protest over what they called the "persecution" of their husbands by the government.

The women gathered in the central park of a sleepy Beijing apartment complex and cut off their hair in front of neighbors and a small group of invited foreign journalists. They took turns shaving each other's heads, placing the hair in see-through plastic boxes alongside pictures of them with their husbands. They later headed to China's Supreme People's Court to petition over their husbands' treatment.

Li Wenzu, who says she has been unable to visit her husband, rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, since he went missing in the 2015 crackdown, told reporters that the act was to protest against the way her husband's case was being handled. Li said judges in Wang's trial had unlawfully delayed proceedings and prevented her from appointing a lawyer of her choosing.

"We can go hairless, but you cannot be lawless," they chanted, a pun in Chinese, as the words for "hair" and "law" sound similar.

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