{"id":44362,"date":"2014-12-22T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=44362 "},"modified":"2014-12-22T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T19:14:00","slug":"44362-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=44362","title":{"rendered":"Octogenarian Writer Looks Set to Stand Trial in Sichuan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chinese police try to stop photos being taken of the Jingxi Hotel as the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee holds it’s secretive Third Plenum in Beijing, Nov. 12, 2013.<\/div>
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Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan are preparing to try an octogenarian writer on public order charges and for “running an illegal business” after he criticized a former senior official in the ruling Chinese Communist Party, his lawyer said on Monday.<\/div>
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Huang Zerong, 81, widely known by his pen name Tie Liu, was detained by police at his Beijing home in September on suspicion of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.”<\/div>
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He was later also charged with “running an illegal business” and transferred to police detention in Sichuan’s provincial capital, Chengdu, his defense lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan told RFA.<\/div>
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He said the authorities now look set to proceed with his trial. “The case was transferred to the state prosecutor’s office on Friday,” Liu said. “I hadn’t been expecting this.”<\/div>
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Tie’s wife Ren Hengfang said she had been handed a travel ban following her husband’s formal arrest in October.<\/div>
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“They informed me in mid-October that I wasn’t allowed to leave the country,” Ren said. “We, his family, are doing whatever we can, but all we can do is wait.”<\/div>
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“How could we not be worried? He is so old,” she said. “But what’s the use of worrying; he can’t see us and we can’t see him.”<\/div>
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Ren said she had planned to take the couple’s two-year-old granddaughter to her mother in the United States, but has now been unable to do so.<\/div>
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Meanwhile, Liu said the case should never have been transferred to Chengdu in the first place.<\/div>
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“It should always have been processed in Beijing, because he was a long-term resident in Beijing,” Liu said, adding: “[He] had always expected to be released on bail.”<\/div>
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He said previous attempts to start a prosecution had been delayed after prosecutors told police there wasn’t enough evidence against Tie Liu.<\/div>
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“I think it is likely that they will now indict him,” he said.<\/div>
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