The wife of detained Chinese rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong has said she has received an account of his torture during his detention in an unknown location. Jiang, who went missing on Nov. 21 in the central city of Changsha, is now confirmed by police as detained under "residential surveillance in a designated location" on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power." He was identified as vulnerable to torture by Amnesty International in January. Speaking from her home in the U.S., Jin Bianling said authorities in neighboring Henan province have also detained Jiang's father and sister after they arrived in Beijing: "Today is the 172nd day of Jiang Tianyong's secret detention. To this day, nobody in our family knows exactly where he is being held. His lawyers aren't permitted to meet with him. We have recently learned from a sympathetic official source in Changsha that Jiang Tianyong has been tortured. There is a problem with his feet. They are so swollen that he can't stand up. He may be crippled for life. I was extremely concerned and worried when I heard about this. I fear for Jiang Tianyong's life and his well-being, because I have seen that other lawyers, Xie Yang, Li Chunfu, and Li Heping released recently had been detained and tortured too. I worry that Jiang Tianyong won't be able to bear it. Yesterday[May 11], Jiang Tianyong's sister went with his father to Beijing to pick up a few items from his brother's place. But they were stopped by interceptors from Henan shortly after they arrived and taken to a hotel. They were told it was because the One Belt, One Road forum is about to open in Beijing, so they weren't being allowed into the city. They then took Jiang Tianyong's sister and father back home in their own car, driving through the night. They arrived in Luoshan in Xinyang city, Henan at around 6.00 a.m.[Thursday] morning. But Jiang Tianyong's sister and father weren't allowed home after they arrived in Luoshan. They have been taken to the Nangan police station for interrogation. They haven't yet been released. I condemn these actions in the strongest terms. In particular, I condemn the Hunan authorities' ... cruel and inhumane torture of Jiang Tianyong. I call on China's judicial system to carry out an investigation into Jiang Tianyong's treatment and make his whereabouts and situation publicly known. At the same time, I call on the Henan police to give me a full and public account of which laws Jiang Tianyong's father and sister are alleged to have broken. They were detained when they only went to Beijing to pick up a few things, and we still don't know where they are or what happened to them." UPDATE: On 2 June 2017, the wife and father of a prominent Chinese human rights campaigner said that police have told the family he has been formally arrested and has dismissed his lawyers. However, it contrary to the fact that one of Jiang's lawyers went to the Public Security Bureau in the central Hunan province city of Changsha on 31 May to again request a meeting with his client. The lawyer was given a statement from Jiang declaring that he had dismissed his family-appointment lawyers. State media later said Jiang was accused of "inciting subversion of state power" and was being held at a secret location. His family and lawyers have not been allowed to meet with him. UPDATE: On 8 June 2017, Jiang's relatives in Hunan's provincial capital Changsha received written notification from the city's police department this week that the charges against him have been stepped up to "subversion of state power" from "incitement to subvert state power." meaning he could face an even longer jail term. UPDATE: On 22 August 2017, Jiang Tianyong was tried for "inciting subversion of state power" in a closed session which lasted less than three hours in Changsha city, Hunan province. Information regarding the trial proceedings was provided via a large screen outside of the court room. Lawyers retained by the human rights defender's family were not permitted to represent him and he was instead provided with state-appointed lawyers. According to the court announcements, Jiang Tianyong confessed to "attempting to undermine China's societal order", as well as to falling under the "influence of overseas trainings", such that he believed that China could develop "Western capitalistic constitutionalism". Court announcements also stated that Jiang Tianyong admitted to his role in fabricating false torture allegations against detained human rights lawyer Xie Yang. Jiang Tianyong's wife believes that the defender was forced by authorities to make these confessions. UPDATE: A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer to two years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power", the latest verdict in an intensifying crackdown on rights activists in the Communist nation. Jiang Tianyong (46), was sentenced at The Intermediate People's Court in the central Chinese city of Changsha. Mr. Jiang was also deprived of his political rights for three years. He said he would not appeal against the conviction, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the ruling of the court. He was found to have made a large number of statements to attack or defame China's government departments, judicial organs and the national legal system, the court ruling said. The court accused him of "inciting subversion of state power," and defaming the government. "Jiang has long been infiltrated and influenced by anti- China forces and gradually formed the idea of overthrowing the existing political system of the country," it said. The court also cited Mr. Jiang's role in helping publish information on the plight of another human rights lawyer, Xie Yang, who detailed his account of torture in detention. Mr. Jiang disappeared in November 2016 and it was several weeks before the authorities confirmed he was in custody. "This case has been an absolute travesty from the beginning, sustained by nothing other than pure political persecution, not facts or broken laws," said Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch. Mr. Jiang is one of more than 250 lawyers, legal assistants and activists detained in what is now known as the "709 crackdown" of July 2015. Some were released, but a number of leading lawyers have been charged with subversion, smeared in the party-controlled press. The ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) in recent years has increased controls over the social media, specially the Weibo, akin to Twitter, which has become immensely popular over the years challenging the monopoly of the state media.