{"id":45028,"date":"2015-01-25T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=45028 "},"modified":"2015-01-25T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T22:06:00","slug":"45028-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=45028","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Journalist Held in Wenzhou Over Church Demolition Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Authorities tear down a cross from a Protestant church in Hangzhou’s Dingqiao township, Dec. 19, 2014.<\/div>
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Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang on Friday detained and questioned a Hong Kong journalist who went to cover a story about the demolition of church crosses in the region.<\/div>
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Jiang Yannan, a reporter for the Hong Kong-based Chinese-language news magazine Asiaweek told RFA’s Mandarin Service that she was detained briefly in Pingyang county near Wenzhou, a city that has been dubbed “China’s Jerusalem” because of a high concentration of Christian believers there.<\/div>
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“I was here to do some reporting and interviews on the demolition of crosses [on Christian churches] … They didn’t hold me for very long. They just stopped me from interviewing people.”<\/div>
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She said police had continued to monitor her movements and contact her interviewees since her release after a brief period of detention at a nearby police station.<\/div>
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“I didn’t pay any attention to them, but they asked me what I was doing,” Jiang said. “They have been following me and bothering the people I am trying to interview.”<\/div>
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She added: “I did a lot of interviews on this trip, and this time the local authorities are being much tougher [on journalists].”<\/div>
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Jiang, who arrived in Pingyang earlier this week, told RFA in a later interview that she had already left the province.<\/div>
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“I am no longer in Zhejiang. I have left the area,” she said. “They were following me the whole time.”<\/div>
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“But it’s not convenient for me to give interviews right now,” Jiang said, before hanging up.<\/div>
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Beijing-based rights lawyer Chen Jiangang, who has been following religious issues in Wenzhou, said he had received a phone call from Jiang earlier on Friday asking for help.<\/div>
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“She called me at around 1:00 p.m., when she was in the police car,” Chen said.<\/div>
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“She said the police had dragged her into their vehicle against her will, and driven her to the police station and asked to see her ID,” he said.<\/div>
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“She waited around at the police station for about 10-20 minutes, and then they released her,” he said, adding: “I am in touch with her, and she could be subjected to further restrictions by police at any time.”<\/div>
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Demolition campaign<\/div>
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According to the U.S.-based Christian rights group China Aid, hundreds of Protestant churches in Zhejiang have been targeted for demolition in the past year.<\/div>
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The actions against churches in Zhejiang are all connected to the province’s “Three Rectifications and One Demolition” campaign, which claims to target all illegal structures, the group said in a recent report on its website.<\/div>
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