{"id":40748,"date":"2014-07-06T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=40748 "},"modified":"2014-07-06T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T15:07:00","slug":"40748-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=40748","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Police Arrest 17 Over Tiananmen Memorial Events"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Protesters gather in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 2, 1989.<\/div><\/div>
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Chinese authorities have formally arrested at least 17 people in connection with public attempts to mark the 25th anniversary of the military crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, rights groups said, including seven people from the central city of Zhengzhou who held a public memorial event.<\/div>
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In Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan province, activist Chen Wei was formally arrested alongside her husband Yu Shiwen and three others who attended: Hou Shuai, Fang Hongwei, and Dong Guangping.<\/div>
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Two lawyers hired by those arrested, Chang Boyang and Ji Laisong, were also formally held.<\/div>
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All seven are were arrested on Thursday on charges of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” and are being held in the Zhengzhou No. 3 Detention Center, the overseas-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) said.<\/div>
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“A lawyer went with us [to the detention center] today…and called up police…who said seven people had been formally arrested,” Chang’s daughter Chang Ruoxi told RFA on Friday. “I went with my mother and Dong Guangping’s wife.”<\/div>
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“The prosecution told us [on Monday] that the crime had been changed from disrupting public order to picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” Chang said. “The other relatives confirmed [that seven people were formally arrested].”<\/div>
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“They have been in detention for 37 days, and the authorities should have informed the family by now. They have acted illegally from start to finish.”<\/div>
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“I think this is disgraceful,” she said. “All of these people are innocent.”<\/div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;">All seven are were arrested on Thursday on charges of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," and are being held in the Zhengzhou No. 3 Detention Center, the overseas-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) said.<\/span><\/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-40748","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\/40748","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=40748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}