{"id":47328,"date":"2015-05-28T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=47328 "},"modified":"2015-05-28T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T22:25:00","slug":"47328-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=47328","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Police Hold Artist Who Posted Satirical Photo of China\\’s President"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shanghai artist Dai Jianyong demonstrates the ‘Chrysanthemum Face’ in an undated photo.<\/div>
Photo courtesy of Dai Jianyong<\/div>
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Authorities in Shanghai are holding an outspoken artist and street photographer after he posted satirical images of China’s president online, his lawyer told RFA, amid concerns that a permanent change is taking place in the level of state control over individual expression.<\/div>
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Artist Dai Jianyong was held under criminal detention by the Changning district police on Wednesday, on suspicion of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” according to a copy of his detention warrant seen by RFA.<\/div>
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Dai had recently widely published a digitally altered photograph of Xi with a puckered up facial expression and large mustache on T-shirts and soda cans.<\/div>
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An officer who answered the phone at the Changning district police department declined to comment on Dai’s case, however.<\/div>
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“If you want to find out about this, you’ll have to come here and inquire, with your ID card,” the officer said.<\/div>
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“We don’t have a telephone inquiry service here, and we don’t answer external queries, sorry.”<\/div>
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However, Beijing-based rights lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan confirmed the detention after speaking with Dai’s wife on Wednesday.<\/div>
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“[The charges are] picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” Liu said. “His relatives will probably hire a lawyer locally to meet with him.”<\/div>
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“To judge from what his wife said, it looks as if a meeting can’t happen until Monday.”<\/div>
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Unflattering images<\/div>
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The inclusion of the mustache has led some to speculate that Dai intended a resemblance to Adolf Hitler, although the mustache lacks the narrow, boxy appearance of Hitler’s facial hair.<\/div>
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Online activists in China have made the link in the past, by substituting the first character in the Chinese transliteration of “Hitler,” Xi Tele, for Xi’s actual surname.<\/div>
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According to the Shanghaiist blog, the puckered-up expression is known to Dai’s followers as “chrysanthemum” face, an Internet slang reference to the anus.<\/div>
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“The fact that Xi is making a similarly unflattering ‘anus face’ in the offending image certainly isn’t helping the matter,” the blog commented.<\/div>
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Dai’s friend and fellow artist Wu Tun said the police reaction was “too much.”<\/div>
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“He’s a photographer and he usually shoots a lot of different things,” Wu told RFA. “He did a satirical portrait of Xi Jinping, merging his own face with Xi’s in Photoshop.”<\/div>
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