{"id":34738,"date":"2013-07-09T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=34738 "},"modified":"2013-07-09T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:36:00","slug":"34738-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=34738","title":{"rendered":"China releases journalist Du Bin from detention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Du Bin, right, wrote a book on the Tiananmen crackdown<\/div>
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Chinese journalist Du Bin has been conditionally released after five weeks of detention by state security officials.<\/div>
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The film-maker and photographer disappeared days before the anniversary of the Tiananmen killings on 4 June.<\/div>
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He was held at a detention centre in Fengtai district.<\/div>
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He told the BBC that officials questioned him about a book he wrote on the 1989 Tiananmen square crackdown and a documentary he made on a labour camp.<\/div>
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Du Bin said police detained him for “causing a disturbance” and accused him of “spreading rumours online”.<\/div>
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They described his book on the Tiananman crackdown as a “fabrication” and said he had “disrupted social order”.<\/div>
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Mr Du said he had been released on bail awaiting charges.<\/div>
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However, he cannot leave the city of Beijing without notifying officials, and must be available for further questioning at any point over the next year, he said.<\/div>
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Aside from asking about his book, he said officials questioned him about a documentary he made on China’s labour camps.<\/div>
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Police officers had investigated his past all the way back to his situation in primary school, Mr Du said.<\/div>
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He was told that officials wanted to understand “why he turned from a good child to someone who kept digging scars into the government”.<\/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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Plain clothes officers from Beijing’s Public Security Bureau arrested him on 1 June from his home in Beijing’s Fengtai district, Mr Du said.<\/div>
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He said they took his three computers and two mobile phones and have yet to return them.<\/div>
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Mr Du has previously worked as a freelance photographer for The New York Times.<\/div>
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<div>He told the BBC that officials questioned him about a book he wrote on the 1989 Tiananmen square crackdown and a documentary he made on a labour camp. Du Bin said police detained him for "causing a disturbance" and accused him of "spreading rumours online".<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}