Three social workers were detained last week in police raids as China’s crackdown on labor activism and migrant workers’ rights advocacy continues. At the South China Morning Post, Keegan Elmer and Guo Rui report:

In separate but apparently coordinated moves, police officers in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen entered the premises of three organisations that provide training, social and advisory services.

[…] Li Dajun, the director of Hope Community in Beijing, is among those thought to be in custody. The group he represents carries out research work and provides advocacy for migrant workers and their children in the Chinese capital.

[…] In Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong province, Liang Zicun, who frequently volunteered at the Guangdong Mumian Social Work Association – a group that mostly provides vocational training for migrant workers – when police entered the premises and apprehended him.

[…] The third person believed to have been detained is Li Changjiang, director of the Qinghu Workers Centre in Shenzhen, Guangdong, which organises social activities for migrant factory workers. […] [Source]