Here's one of the things that makes Li's case so potentially powerful. Dissidents are martyred all the time in China - broken in prison, murdered outright, etc. But normally their *status as dissidents* allows the public psychological distance from them.
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'Oh, well, if you do X, what do you expect?' 'If he hadn't made trouble, this wouldn't have happened.' I made this case here -https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/11/the-chinese-think-liu-xiaobo-was-asking-for-it/ …
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that doesn't work with Li - and it also helps that he was a nice, urban-middle class good-looking Han doctor, not a migrant worker or a Uighur professor ...
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Just a few years ago people were angry when Lei Yang, a well-educated man in China's middle-class, died in police custody.https://qz.com/876828
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