{"id":46353,"date":"2015-04-02T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=46353 "},"modified":"2015-04-02T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:16:00","slug":"46353-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=46353","title":{"rendered":"China Formally Arrests Three Online Activists For Subversion Over Tweets, Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div><div>2015-04-02<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/14\/201542af599075-50a2-4f5a-9141-f6038e41afdb.jpeg\" alt=\"201542af599075-50a2-4f5a-9141-f6038e41afdb.jpeg (622&#215;471)\" \/><br \/><div><\/div><div><\/div><div>Updated at 04:35 P.M. EST on 2015-04-02<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have formally arrested three netizens on suspicion of &#8220;incitement to subvert state power&#8221; after they posted satirical and pro-democracy tweets to social media, their lawyer said on Thursday.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Liang Qinhui, also known by his online nickname &#8220;Sharp Knife,&#8221; was detained by police in Guangdong&#8217;s provincial capital Guangzhou.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Police also detained Zheng Jingxian, known by his online nickname &#8220;Right Road for China&#8221; and Huang Qian, known by her online nickname &#8220;Jailbreak Archive,&#8221; Liang&#8217;s lawyer Wu Kuiming told RFA.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;The police detained them in separate operations, but they were all detained because of tweets they posted,&#8221; Wu said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;One was Liang &#8230; another was &#8216;Right Road for China,&#8217; and there was another, &#8216;Jailbreak Archive,&#8217;&#8221; he said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;I heard they were all arrested on the same charge,&#8221; Wu said. &#8220;I think [they posted] stuff about democracy and political awakening and suchlike.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Liang&#8217;s fiancee Fu Yuqin said the formal arrest notification had come 37 days after his initial detention.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;He was moved to the Guangzhou No. 1 Detention Center on March 10, and he has been held for a total of 58 days now,&#8221; Fu said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>She added: &#8220;I sent him some things in the second half of last month, some money, but I haven&#8217;t seen him since [his detention].&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Fu said police had questioned her about Liang&#8217;s activities shortly before that.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;They came and questioned me about what tools he used to get online,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They also asked me who he normally had contact with.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;I told them he was an honest and law-abiding person with very few possessions in his place; all he had was his smartphone,&#8221; Fu said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Fu told RFA at the time of Liang&#8217;s initial detention that police had accused him of insulting Chinese President Xi Jinping in his posts to the popular chat site QQ.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>However, it was hard to gauge from copies of his posts seen by RFA what exactly had triggered Liang&#8217;s arrest.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;I told them that he had tweeted about air pollution and things like that, and then suddenly they have pinned this heavy charge on him,&#8221; Fu said on Thursday. &#8220;I am totally dumbfounded by this.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;The police told me we exist in this environment, and so we must depend on the [ruling Chinese Communist] Party, and that there are some things that we shouldn&#8217;t say,&#8221; she said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Fu said she is still unsure if or when the case will go to trial.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t had any news, and there&#8217;s no timetable, and I don&#8217;t know if he will be sentenced to prison, or what&#8217;s happening,&#8221; she said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>In February, Fu had quoted one of Liang&#8217;s posts as saying that the beauty of a society lies in equality, and that of a country in freedom, the beauty of a government in its people, and the beauty of the people&#8217;s lives lies in their enjoyment of their rights.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Behind the Great Firewall<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>China&#8217;s 649 million Internet users are increasingly chafing against the complex system of blocks, filters and human censorship known collectively as the &#8220;Great Firewall,&#8221; or GFW.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\" http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/three-online-activists-arrested-04022015110059.html\" target=\"_blank\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Liang Qinhui, also known by his online nickname &quot;Sharp Knife,&quot; 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