Japanese professor petitions on behalf of Chinese human rights lawyer

Photo taken on July 8, 2021, shows Tomoko Ako, a Japanese professor at a graduate school of the University of Tokyo, depositing a petition signed by 1,200 people into the mailbox of the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo requesting its government allow Chinese human rights lawyer Tang Jitian, who is banned from leaving the country, be permitted to visit his ill 25-year-old daughter in the Japanese capital.