{"id":34405,"date":"2013-06-13T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=34405 "},"modified":"2013-06-13T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T21:51:00","slug":"34405-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=34405","title":{"rendered":"China detains journalist and photographer Du Bin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Du Bin’s friends say they believe his detention is related to his research into labour camps<\/div>
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A Chinese journalist who disappeared days before the anniversary of the Tiananmen killings has been detained by security officials, his sister says.<\/div>
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Du Bin, a film-maker and photographer, has not been seen since 31 May, his friends say.<\/div>
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His sister Du Jirong told the BBC police had confirmed he was under criminal detention in Beijing.<\/div>
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He had recently released a documentary on China’s labour camps and a book on the Tiananmen square crackdown.<\/div>
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Ms Du said Beijing police had confirmed that her brother was being held in a detention centre in Fengtai district and that his case was being handled by Beijing’s state security officers. However, she said that police did not say why he was being held.<\/div>
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“[They said] if I want to know my brother’s situation, I have to ask the pre-trial division of the Fengtai District police bureau,” she said.<\/div>
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Du Bin has done extensive media work uncovering torture in re-education through labour camps”<\/div>
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Catherine Baber<\/div>
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Hu Jia, a prominent Beijing-based activist and friend of Du Bin, told the BBC he believed Mr Du’s detention was due to his recent work.<\/div>
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“We found out that all of Du Bin’s books – including those he wrote – had all been taken away. Materials he collected regarding the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown and, as well as those of the Masanjia Labour Camp… have all gone missing,” he said.<\/div>
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Mr Du has in the past worked as a freelance photographer for The New York Times.<\/div>
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‘Government critic’<\/div>
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Du Bin was reportedly escorted by police from his home in Fengtai district on 31 May, a few days before the 24th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen crackdown on 4 June 1989.<\/div>
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Speaking shortly after Mr Du’s disappearance, Catherine Baber, Amnesty International’s Asia Program Director, said: “Du Bin has done extensive media work uncovering torture and deplorable conditions in re-education through labour camps.”<\/div>
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“This could well be a case of the Chinese authorities trying to ‘disappear’ an inconvenient whistleblower and government critic.”<\/div>
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Mr Du’s most recent book, Tiananmen Massacre, covers accounts of the military crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests in Beijing. It was published in Hong Kong.<\/div>
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He also released a documentary on the Masanjia labour camp in China’s Liaoning province, featuring interviews with former inmates.<\/div>
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In April, an expose by Chinese monthly magazine Lens alleged torture and abuse treatment at the Masanjia labour camp in Liaoning, including electrocution and manacles.<\/div>
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