{"id":57169,"date":"2016-06-20T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=57169 "},"modified":"2016-06-20T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T18:27:00","slug":"57169-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=57169","title":{"rendered":"3 Others Detained in China Over Liquor Commemorating Tiananmen Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A man stood before a line of tanks near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in June 1989. Liquor bottles with labels riffing on that protest began circulating on WeChat in May.<\/span><\/p>

Jeff Widener\/Associated Press<\/span><\/p>

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BEIJING \u2014 The Chinese police have detained three more people in a widening investigation into the creation and distribution of liquor bottles that bore the image of a lone man blocking a line of tanks, a reference to a figure of resistance to the deadly 1989 military crackdown on the Tiananmen democracy movement, according to a friend of the detainees and the wife of one.<\/span><\/p>

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Images of the bottles with a label showing an altered \u201cTank Man,\u201d this time sitting on the ground apparently looking at a computer, began circulating on WeChat in May, shortly before the 27th anniversary of the June 4 killings, according to a friend of the detainees. The three \u2014 a poet, a freelance advertising designer and a former driver \u2014 all lived in the southwestern city of Chengdu.<\/span><\/p>

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The friend, who communicated by online message, asked not to be named for fear that he also would be detained.<\/span><\/p>

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The liquor was called \u201cEight Liquor Six Four,\u201d a play on the Chinese name for the crackdown, based on the date\u2019s numbers: 89.6.4. (In Mandarin, the word for \u201cliquor,\u201d \u201cjiu,\u201d is a homophone for \u201cnine.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>

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The inscription on the label was also laced with meaning. It said the liquor was from \u201cBeijing,\u201d was \u201c64 percent volume\u201d and had \u201caged for 27 years.\u201d It also said, \u201cnever forget, never give up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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Some people bought the commemorative liquor in May, but it had not spread widely before the police made their first arrest, according to the friend.<\/span><\/p>

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The first person taken into custody was a worker named Fu Hailu, who was formally detained on May 29 on suspicion of \u201cinciting subversion of state power,\u201d according to friends and human rights groups.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201c<\/span>They did this to remember the pain of the people,\u201d said the friend of the detainees, who was also in Chengdu.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201c<\/span>This wasn\u2019t a commercial thing,\u201d the friend wrote. \u201cThe liquor was made by a small distillery in Sichuan, and they sold it at cost.\u2019\u2019<\/span><\/p>

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\u201c<\/span>Chinese people have the tradition of using liquor to commemorate the souls of the dead,\u201d he wrote, a reference to the practice of leaving offerings at shrines or graves. \u201cThe blood of those who died on 6.4 was a start for the Chinese people\u2019s search for freedom, although it failed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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Gao Yan, the wife of the detained freelance advertiser, Luo Fuyu, said in a telephone interview that the police came on Thursday to the nail salon where she works and took her away for questioning about her husband. She said she had not seen him for several days. \u201cHe was very busy and hadn\u2019t been home,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>

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The police handed her a detention notice, saying Mr. Luo was in custody as of Wednesday on suspicion of \u201cinciting subversion of state power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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\u201c<\/span>I don\u2019t know what he did,\u201d Ms. Gao said, adding that the police refused to tell her, although \u201cthey said it wasn\u2019t robbery, arson or pickpocketing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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Ms. Gao said that as word of her husband\u2019s detention spread, his friends contacted her to say it had to do with the liquor.<\/span><\/p>

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The detentions demonstrate the government\u2019s enduring sensitivity to any commemoration of the 1989 killings. Beijing declared the demonstrations a \u201ccounterrevolutionary rebellion\u201d and did not apologize for the bloodshed, which left hundreds, possibly thousands dead.<\/span><\/p>

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Also detained was Ma Qing, a poet who friends said shared images of the bottles online, on charges of \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble,\u201d and Zhang Junyong, who has no current fixed employment but has worked as a driver and in a tourism company. Mr. Zhang was also detained for \u201cinciting subversion,\u201d the friends said.<\/span><\/p>

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Although the center of the demonstrations and the subsequent military crackdown was Beijing, protests broke out and were suppressed in Chengdu and other cities as well.<\/span><\/p>

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A woman who answered the telephone at the Chengdu City Detention Center said the center could not confirm Mr. Luo was being held there, as was said in the detention notice, a copy of which was seen by The New York Times.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201c<\/span>We don\u2019t accept information requests by telephone, fax or email; there are too many people here,\u201d said the woman, who would not give her name. \u201cYou have to come here to the big hall with your ID card to get information.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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