{"id":45763,"date":"2015-03-03T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=45763 "},"modified":"2015-03-03T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T22:24:00","slug":"45763-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=45763","title":{"rendered":"China Detains Activist Demanding Rehabilitation of Zhao Ziyang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>2015-03-03<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/9\/2015332cc9e53f-8ecd-402c-8a79-0758b942b0ba.jpeg\" alt=\"2015332cc9e53f-8ecd-402c-8a79-0758b942b0ba.jpeg (622&#215;400)\" \/><br \/><div><\/div><div>Zhao Ziyang (C) addresses the Tiananmen Square student hunger strikers in Beijing, May 19, 1989.<\/div><div>&nbsp;AFP<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Authorities in the Chinese capital have detained a political activist who called publicly for the rehabilitation of late ousted reform-minded premier Zhao Ziyang, fellow activists said on Tuesday.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Veteran Beijing-based activist Li Jinping, who has campaigned on behalf of Zhao&#8217;s name for more than a decade, was taken away on Monday by police.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;He wants them to clear Zhao Ziyang&#8217;s name, and also to reappraise the verdict on the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown,&#8221; retired Shandong University professor Sun Wenguang, a close friend of Li&#8217;s, told RFA.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;He usually carries out some activities during the parliamentary sessions, such as putting up a banner on Tiananmen Square,&#8221; Sun said, adding that Li was incommunicado on Tuesday.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;The biggest likelihood is that he has been detained by the authorities,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>China&#8217;s ruling Communist Party has continued to ignore growing calls in China and from overseas for a reappraisal of the 1989 student protests, which it once styled a &#8220;counterrevolutionary rebellion.&#8221;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Fall from power<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Zhao Ziyang fell from power in the wake of the military crackdown on the protests amid accusations that he took too conciliatory a line with the students.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Zhao, who died 10 years ago on Jan. 17, is rarely mentioned in public, and his name and image have been removed from many official publications.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Meanwhile, thousands of people with complaints against the government have converged on Beijing ahead of China&#8217;s annual parliamentary sessions this week, rights activists said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The authorities have deployed hundreds of officials from regional representative offices in Beijing, known as interceptors, to detain anyone from their region who seeks to lodge a formal complaint, the Sichuan-based rights website Tianwang reported.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>A Gansu petitioner surnamed Chang said petitioners find it increasingly hard to evade the interceptors ahead of the National People&#8217;s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People&#8217;s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) sessions this week.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;Parliament is in session, and they are afraid of any incidents of any kind,&#8221; Chang said. &#8220;All government departments will be involved in interception work.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/petitions-03032015112330.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Veteran Beijing-based activist Li Jinping, who has campaigned on behalf of Zhao&#39;s name for more than a decade, was taken away on Monday by police.&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; line-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/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-45763","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\/45763","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=45763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}