Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December

But in China, it's proving a sensitive anniversary as experts from the UN demand answers from the government about the recent disappearance of a well-known human rights lawyer.

Jiang Tianyong went missing three weeks ago after attempting to investigate the detention of a colleague.

Human rights groups fear that Mr Jiang himself may now have been detained.

Our China editor Carrie Gracie has this update on Beijing's sweeping crackdown on its human rights lawyers.

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