{"id":49155,"date":"2015-09-05T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=49155 "},"modified":"2015-09-05T00:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T00:39:00","slug":"49155-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=49155","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Activist Incommunicado After Teaching People How to Win Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A voter fills his ballot during rare village committee elections in Wukan, in Guangdong province, in a file photo.<\/div>
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Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei have detained grass-roots election expert and former independent People’s Congress deputy Yao Lifa at the school where he teaches, fellow activists told RFA.<\/div>
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Yao was taken away by police at his school in Hubei’s Qianjiang city on Thursday, as the ruling Chinese Communist Party leadership gathered in Beijing for a massive military parade marking the end of the war with Japan 70 years ago.<\/div>
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Xu Qin, of the China Human Rights Observer group, said Yao isn’t picking up his phone, and had responded briefly to a WhatsApp message sent on Thursday with the words, “It’s not convenient for me to talk for a few days.”<\/div>
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“Not convenient” is frequently used by Chinese activists to indicate that they are in custody or under close surveillance by the authorities.<\/div>
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“It looked as if they hadn’t yet confiscated his phone,” Xu said. But he said Yao had already been under close surveillance by police, making his ‘disappearance’ a concern.<\/div>
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Yao, 57, is an outspoken constitutional expert and a long-time civil rights and political activist, who was elected to the Qianjiang municipal People’s Congress in 1998 as a rare independent candidate, where he used his platform to criticize government policy.<\/div>
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Xu said he had recently been involved in a discussion group on the popular chatroom QQ, and had been planning a video lecture for the group on the topic of standing as an independent candidate.<\/div>
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“We have already run this four times in the past, every Thursday, and it has been a great success,” Xu said. “Everyone wants to hear what he has to say.”<\/div>
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“But after the second time, he lost his freedom and was put under house arrest,” he said. “The authorities took him a long way out of town for a meal, and told him not to do those lectures any more.”<\/div>
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Repeated calls to Yao’s wife’s cell phone rang unanswered on Friday.<\/div>
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Past run-ins<\/div>
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In September 2011, Yao suffered multiple injuries after almost a month of secret detention and torture, his wife said at the time, following his release.<\/div>
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Yao, who inspired a national movement to field independent candidates in this year’s government controlled People’s Congress elections, also reported being starved in the detention center.<\/div>
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