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BEIJING (AP) — Unresolved questions have haunted Yuan Shanshan since her husband, the human rights lawyer Xie Yanyi, was taken away a year ago by the police. She doesn't know how her husband could have broken the law. She doesn't know where she and their three children will live next month after they're evicted. She doesn't know what to name the 3-month-old baby girl with eyebrows shaped just like his. Held in a jail 100 kilometers (60 miles) away, Xie probably doesn't even know he has another child. The Chinese government launched its largest-ever crackdown against human rights lawyers and activists on July 9, 2015, seizing and questioning hundreds of people nationwide in a campaign that sent a chill through the country's legal system.
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