2015-02-11
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Students gather at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, April 22, 1989.
AFP
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan are investigating the last of the “Zhengzhou 10” activists who marked the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square military crackdown, while two others have been released “on bail,” lawyers and relatives said on Wednesday.
The case against Yu Shiwen for “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” has been taken up by the prosecutor in Henan’s capital, Zhengzhou, his lawyer Zhang Xuezhong told RFA.
“They have already issued the indictment and sent it to the court,” Zhang said. “A lawyer will visit him in the next couple of days.”
Fellow detainees Dong Guangping and Hou Shuai were released on bail on Wednesday, relatives said.
“He was bailed out today; they told us to wait at home for him,” Dong’s wife Gu Shuhua said. “I think they both were.”
She added: “They were both met by police; we weren’t allowed to go and meet them.”
Dong, Hou and Yu were the last of a group of 10 detained in May 2014 for commemorating the 1989 bloodshed and the death of ousted former premiers Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang.
Now, only Yu remains behind bars.
Gu said the family has yet to see any official documents relating to Dong’s release.
Hou’s mother, who gave only her surname Ma, said she had also received notification of her son’s bail from police on Wednesday.
“He’s not home yet,” Ma said in an interview on Wednesday evening.
Yu was detained last May alongside his wife and fellow veteran of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Guangzhou, Chen Wei.
Held on same charges
Rights activists Jia Lingmin and Liu Diwei, journalists Shi Yu (also known as Shi Ping) and Yin Yusheng and online discussion forum moderator Shao Shengdong were held on the same charges.
Netizen activists Dong Guangping, Fang Yan and Hou Shuai were also held around that time, while lawyers Ji Laisong and Chang Boyang were held for several months before being released, after they tried to represent the detained activists.
Meanwhile, a detained rights lawyer held for similar activities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong has been subjected to physical abuse while in police detention, his lawyer said.
Wang Qingying, who was detained alongside fellow rights lawyers Tang Jingling and Yuan Xinting on May 16 for “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” is now being held on subversion charges in Guangzhou, lawyer Sui Muqing told RFA after visiting Wang on Tuesday.
