{"id":48839,"date":"2015-08-19T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=48839 "},"modified":"2015-08-19T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T23:13:00","slug":"48839-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=48839","title":{"rendered":"China Jails Dissident Over Tianjin Blast Death Toll Retweet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shen Liangqing, April 2010.<\/div>
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Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui have jailed veteran activist and whistle-blower Shen Liangqing on public order charges after he retweeted a social media post about last week’s devastating warehouse explosions in Tianjin, his relatives told RFA.<\/div>
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Former state-prosecutor-turned-whistle-blower Shen Liangqing, who wrote a book detailing abuses under the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s internal disciplinary regime, was handed a nine-day administrative sentence by police in the provincial capital, Hefei.<\/div>
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“He went downstairs to buy groceries, and when he came back, I saw three police officers following him,” Shen’s son Shen Li said in an interview on Wednesday.<\/div>
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“He took out his cell phone and gave it to me, so they didn’t confiscate it,” he said. “Then they left.”<\/div>
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He said police had told him his father was being detained on suspicion of “fabricating facts and disturbing public order.”<\/div>
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“He called me [on Tuesday] and told me to bring him some clothes and other items to the Wuhu Road police station,” Shen Li said. “When I went there, he gave me the administrative detention notice.”<\/div>
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According to the notice, Shen Liangqing retweeted a post on a social media platform on Aug. 15, 2015 which said that at least 1,400 people had died in the Tianjin explosions, while more than 700 were still missing.<\/div>
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“This information was not accurate,” the notice said.<\/div>
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Charges ‘unfair’<\/div>
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Shen Li said the charges against his father, a former prosecutor at the Hefei municipal procuratorate, were unfair.<\/div>
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“I don’t think it amounts to fabricating information if you are just retweeting something,” Shen Li said.<\/div>
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“The reason the tweet was not accurate was a lack of openness and transparency on the part of the government,” he added.<\/div>
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China’s propaganda ministry has ordered the country’s tightly controlled media outlets to stick to officially approved news stories, which put the death toll in Tianjin at 114.<\/div>
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Tweets and social media messages linked to the disaster initially gave a real-time glimpse of the two devastating explosions and their aftermath, but were later tracked down and deleted by China’s Internet censors.<\/div>
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China’s draconian Internet agency, the Cyberspace Administration, said it had suspended more than 360 social media accounts since the blasts rocked Tianjin.<\/div>
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Shen Li said if anyone was held responsible, it should be the original poster of the offending tweet.<\/div>
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“I don’t think that retweeting on its own should be a crime,” he said. “Rumors only emerge because the government is closed and secretive. If they were more transparent, they wouldn’t circulate.”<\/div>
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An officer who answered the phone at the Wuhu Road police station in Hefei declined to comment on Shen’s case.<\/div>
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“I don’t know about this,” the officer said.<\/div>
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