{"id":42735,"date":"2014-10-07T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=42735 "},"modified":"2014-10-07T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:58:00","slug":"42735-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=42735","title":{"rendered":"Seven Held in Beijing\\’s Artists\\’ Village Over Support For Hong Kong Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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View of Songzhuang Artists’ Village in Beijing’s Tongzhou district, in a file photo.<\/div>
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Chinese authorities have detained seven people on public order charges after a poetry recital evening held on the outskirts of Beijing in support of the Occupy Central pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.<\/div>
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They were among about a dozen people held initially following the event at the Songzhuang Artists’ Village last week.<\/div>
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Six of them—Cui Guangxia, Zhu Yanguang, Fei Xiaosheng, Ren Zhongyuan, Ding Ting and Zhang Miao, a news assistant from the Beijing bureau of Germany’s Zeit News—were taken away by police after they attended the event.<\/div>
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But police also detained poet Wang Zang, who hadn’t attended the poetry event, but who posted a photo of himself online holding an umbrella and making a single-fingered gesture in support of the mass civil disobedience movement calling for universal suffrage in the former British colony.<\/div>
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A total of 11 people were taken away when police in the Songzhuang district raided the event last week, Wang’s wife told RFA.<\/div>
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Wang is being held in Beijing’s No. 1 Detention Center on suspicion of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” after being taken away by police on Oct. 1, Wang Li said on Monday.<\/div>
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“I had no news of him until Oct. 4, even though they had him locked up there and I kept calling to ask about him,” Wang Li said. “The police just dragged their heels.”<\/div>
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“They didn’t tell me until I went again to inquire [on Sunday].”<\/div>
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She said she had received a phone call from the detention center on Sunday.<\/div>
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“They said Wang Zang was under criminal detention for picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.”<\/div>
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Wang, an outspoken poet and social activist, also had his home searched by police and computers, umbrellas and other items confiscated by officers, Wang Li said.<\/div>
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A total of seven people are now being held together, she said.<\/div>
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“They are all being held in the same place, although I’m not sure exactly what they have been charged with.”<\/div>
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She said she had been in touch with prominent rights lawyer Sui Muqing. “But nothing’s decided yet,” Wang Li added.<\/div>
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She added: “He didn’t commit any crime. He’s innocent. I refused to sign anything the police asked me to sign.”<\/div>
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Beijing-based artist Kuang Laowu said the poetry event was the main trigger for the detentions.<\/div>
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“They took about 11 or 12 people away to the police station and questioned them, a lot of them three days after the event,” Kuang said.<\/div>
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“Now, there are six people in total who have been criminally detained on account of the poetry reading,” he added.<\/div>
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“[Ding Ting] was detained [on Sunday], but we don’t yet know if he will be criminally detained,” Kuang said. “But I’m pretty certain he will be.”<\/div>
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“They are all likely going to be charged with picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” he said.<\/div>
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Kuang said state security police had also paid him a visit at home.<\/div>
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“They came yesterday afternoon, the state security police, and told me not to give any interviews,” he said.<\/div>
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“Two of them came to my home.”<\/div>
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Ding Ting’s wife Chen Cheng said police had banged on the door of the couple’s apartment late on Sunday.<\/div>
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“I wouldn’t open it at first,” Chen said. “I said it was late, and couldn’t it wait until tomorrow, but they said no.”<\/div>
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