{"id":30995,"date":"2012-11-21T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=30995 "},"modified":"2012-11-21T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T10:24:00","slug":"30995-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=30995","title":{"rendered":"Chinese blogger jailed for \\’spreading terrorist information\\’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Shanghai11:38AM GMT 19 Nov 2012<\/div>
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Friends say Zhai Xiaobing, 36, was taken into custody on the eve of China’s 18th Communist Party Congress, after he used Twitter to post online a spoof film synopsis in which China’s top leaders were killed when the roof of Beijing’s Great Hall of the People caved in.<\/div>
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“The Great Hall [of the People] collapses all of a sudden,” the tweet said.<\/div>
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“All 2,000 plus people in the meeting died instantly except for 7 of them. But the seven died mysteriously one after another.”<\/div>
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“How did the mysterious number 18 unlock the gates of Hell?” Mr Zhai added on Twitter, which is blocked but widely used in China.<\/div>
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Thousands of activists and campaigners were detained or forced from Beijing during the sensitive political handover after coming under pressure from China’s massive state security apparatus.<\/div>
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On Monday, the Chinese Human Rights Defenders group claimed that at least two petitioners had died after being assaulted during a Congress-related crackdown on dissent. Among them was Zhang Yaodong, a petitioner from Henan province, who was allegedly beaten to death in police custody three days before the Congress began.<\/div>
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With the Congress now over some of Beijing’s temporarily exiled activists have returned home.<\/div>
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But friends say Mr Zhai has yet to be released from a detention centre in Beijing’s Miyun county.<\/div>
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“Zhai’s family is really worried and panicking. They just hope Zhai can get out soon,” said Liu Yanping, a blogger and the assistant of Chinese artisit Ai Weiwei.<\/div>
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Hu Jia, a prominent human rights activist who has signed an online petition in support of the blogger, said Mr Zhai’s Tweet was a “teasing way of showing dissatisfaction.”<\/div>
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“He simply showed his aversion to the government. We all felt the absurdity of this matter,” he said, attributing Mr Zhai’s arrest to sensitivities around China’s once-in-a-decade leadership transition.<\/div>
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“At the time authorities were so nervous they were on the verge of a nervous breakdown,” he said.<\/div>
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Wu Gan, a Fujian-based blogger, said Mr Zhai’s arrest “makes everyone a potential criminal.” “Every word we say may cross the line. It is really a horrible thing. The whole world is moving forward with the free speech trend, and we are swimming against it.” “It is unbelievable they’d take it seriously,” he added.<\/div>
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Ai Xiaoming, a Guangdong-based scholar and documentary maker, also defended the blogger.<\/div>
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“If the authorities regard the joke as inappropriate, they can fight back and argue on open platforms, but not jail people for a literary offence,” she said.<\/div>
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“If Zhai gets released soon, it will send out a good signal for the new government. If not, it will extinguish the remaining faith and hope in the government.”<\/div>
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