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The wife of a repeatedly detained Chinese human rights lawyer died of cancer on Monday in the US after her husband’s pleas to be allowed to leave China and reunite with her went ignored, rights advocates said. Zhang Qing (張青) fled to the US with the couple’s children in 2009 after her husband, Yang Maodong (楊茂東), highlighted local corruption in a Chinese village and was imprisoned. Zhang was diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer in January last year and died in hospital at the age of 55, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Monday. Yang had published an open

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