article_snippet.sent: The families of five Chinese feminists detained by police for more than a month facing charges of 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble' have issued a plea to authorities for authorities .
article_snippet.sent: The vague charge of 'provoking trouble' has been increasingly used by Chinese police under President Xi Jinping to detain and jail protesters from holding small-scale demonstrations.
article_snippet.sent: Their detention on March 8 has prompted renewed condemnation of China's tight controls on political activists from human rights groups as well as the US.
article_snippet.sent: The tussle over the activists could further strain ties .
article_snippet.sent: Wang Man, 32, (right) face charges of 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble'
article_snippet.sent: President Xi Jinping's administration has detained hundreds . of activists in the past two years, in what some rights groups .
article_snippet.sent: say is the worst suppression of human rights in two decades.
article_snippet.sent: Beijing's resolve in crushing all forms of civil society.
highlights_snippet.sent: Five Chinese feminists have been held by police for more than a month .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Five Chinese feminists each face charges of 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble'
  Women activists linked to stunts which aim to highlight issues such as domestic violence and the poor provision of women's toilets in China .
  