Zhao Wei is a legal assistant who was arrested for political activism, and detained in secret by authorities in China.
[2] Zhao was taken into secret detention in July 2015, when the government was starting an offensive against human rights lawyers.
[5] In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Zhao said she was staying with her parents – however, the newspaper could not verify her location.
[4] Zhao's husband, You Minglei, traveled to the home of her parents in Jiyuan, Henan, but found nobody there.
[6] Other people still detained by the authorities include lawyer Li Heping and his other legal assistant, Gao Yue; lawyers Wang Yu, Zhou Shifeng, Li Shuyun and Xie Yanyi; as well as another legal assistant, Liu Sixin; and activists Hu Shigen and Gou Hongguo.