{"id":36338,"date":"2013-11-04T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=36338 "},"modified":"2013-11-04T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T20:09:00","slug":"36338-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=36338","title":{"rendered":"Guangzhou Crackdown on Chinese Citizens\\’ Movement Gathers Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have formally arrested an anti-graft activist who demonstrated on the street in support of detained movement founder Xu Zhiyong, his lawyer said on Friday.<\/div>
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Sun Desheng was detained after he held up a placard with the words “Shame on [President] Xi Jinping, Xu Zhiyong is innocent!” on a street in Guangzhou last August.<\/div>
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Now, police have formally arrested him in charges of “gathering a crowd to disturb public order,” Sun’s laywer Ge Wenxiu said.<\/div>
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Ge said he had been denied permission to meet with his client twice in recent weeks, on the grounds that Sun’s was also a subversion case.<\/div>
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“I went there in September, and they said that he was also charged with “incitement to subversion,” so there was nothing I could do; they can prevent me from meeting him if he is charged with incitement to subvert state power,” he said.<\/div>
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“The second time was on Oct. 22.”<\/div>
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But he said there had been no mention of subversion on the charge sheet he saw last month during his visit.<\/div>
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“They said I could go and visit him, and I went, pretty happy about that, but then they told me when I got there that they’d had orders from higher up not to let me see him,” Ge said.<\/div>
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Activists released<\/div>
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Meanwhile, Guangzhou police released on bail activists Xie Wenfei and Chen Jianxiong after holding them for a month on similar charges after they held up placards on Sept. 30 emblazoned with the slogan: “An end to one-party dictatorship, let’s build a democratic China.”<\/div>
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Xie told RFA he had been mistreated while inside Guangzhou’s Tianhe District No. 3 Detention Center.<\/div>
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“I had to wear manacles and leg irons,” he said. “I thought that detention was pretty inhumane.”<\/div>
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“They made me wear them for eight days, so it was very difficult for me to eat, clean my teeth, or wash my face, let alone take a shower.”<\/div>
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“I think that treatment counts as torture.”<\/div>
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Chen said he had been stripped of privileges accorded other prisoners during his detention.<\/div>
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“All the rights I should have had in there were taken away from me,” he said. “I was prevented from watching TV, reading books and newspapers.”<\/div>
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“I wasn’t even allowed to see my lawyer.”<\/div>
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In nearby Shenzhen, activists Zhang Kunle and Wang Long were detained briefly on Wednesday after they tried to attend the trial of a group of activists.<\/div>
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Fellow activists Li Xiaoling and Liu Jiaqing were also held by police from the Yantian Port police station after they went there to call for Zhang’s release.<\/div>
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Ongoing detentions<\/div>
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Meanwhile, Guangzhou authorities are continuing to hold a top human rights lawyer with no announcement of criminal charges against him, in spite of a vocal campaign for his release.<\/div>
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Yang Maodong, better known as Guo Feixiong, was criminally detained on Aug. 8 on charges of “incitement to disturb public order,” after being involved in anti-censorship and anti-corruption protests.<\/div>
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Detained civil rights activist Xu Zhiyong, who is being held at a Beijing detention center on public order charges after calling on China’s leaders to reveal their assets in March, had recently called on ordinary Chinese to take a stand to protect the rights of citizens.<\/div>
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President Xi Jinping has launched a nationwide clampdown on corruption, warning that the Communist Party must beat graft or lose power.<\/div>
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However, police continue to detain activists who call for greater transparency.<\/div>
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The overseas-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) said it has confirmed the criminal detentions or disappearances of more than 50 individuals in the ongoing crackdown on anti-corruption activists, half of whom have been formally arrested.<\/div>
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Reported by Qiao Long for RFA’s Mandarin Service, and by Hai Nan for the Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.<\/div>
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