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