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China is hardening against dissent, rights groups say as they mark International Human Rights Day

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LONDON � When her husband fled China in 2019 to escape a police crackdown on dissidents, Lu Lina thought she and their young son could soon join him in safety abroad.

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Chinese dissident Liu Sifang and his wife, Lu Lina, in the United States. 

She did not know that she would be forced to move to a different house, that her 8-year-old son would be effectively kicked out of school and that border police would block her from leaving the country over the next three years. In the end, the couple had to resort to filing for divorce in China to get around the exit ban.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, stands for a photograph with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, and European Council President Charles Michel prior to their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on Thursday in Beijing.

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