{"id":85410,"date":"2018-08-15T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=85410 "},"modified":"2018-08-15T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T11:15:00","slug":"85410-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=85410","title":{"rendered":"Retired Professor, Wife, Home From Detention in China\\’s Shandong"},"content":{"rendered":"
2018-08-14<\/span><\/div>

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Sun Wenguang speaks to a reporter at his home in Jinan, Shandong, in a file photo.<\/span><\/p>

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Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong have released an outspoken democracy activist and retired university lecturer and his wife, after holding them under surveillance at a hill resort outside the provincial capital, Jinan.<\/span><\/p>

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Sun Wenguang, 84, who has repeatedly criticized the ruling Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping, was taken away by police who burst into his home and interrupted a live interview with Voice of America (VOA) TV on Aug. 2.<\/span><\/p>

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He was released alongside his wife late on Monday, although the couple will likely remain under surveillance, and with limited freedom to move around or contact others.<\/span><\/p>

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“They took us both away for [about] 10 days,” Sun told VOA after his return home. “We went to four different guesthouses, some of which had the windows blocked out, so they were basically unofficial jails.”<\/span><\/p>

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He said the authorities’ claim that he had simply taken a vacation was “fake.”<\/span><\/p>

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“They had … my wife put out a statement saying we were going on vacation, but that wasn’t the case at all,” Sun said. “We weren’t on vacation; that was just a facade they want to create, with a photograph and everything, just to post online.”<\/span><\/p>

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Meanwhile, VOA journalist Ye Bing and a news assistant detained as they tried to interview Sun after his return home were released in the early hours of Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>

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Repeated calls to Sun’s cell phone and landline rang unanswered on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>

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An officer who answered the phone at the Shanda Road police station near Sun’s Shandong University in Jinan declined to comment.<\/span><\/p>

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“I can’t tell you that,” the officer said. “I have no way of confirming your identity.”<\/span><\/p>

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Terror tactics<\/span><\/p>

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Yang Sen-hong, president of the Taiwan Association for China Human Rights, accused the authorities of trying to “terrorize” Sun.<\/span><\/p>

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“These are basically terror tactics,” Yang told RFA. “The authorities are now so weak that they even fear the words of a man like Sun Wenguang, who has been a scholar all his life.”<\/span><\/p>

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“This incident shows just how influential Sun Wenguang is in China,” he said, adding that Sun’s detention was likely ordered at the highest level.<\/span><\/p>

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“I don’t think the state security police in Shandong were targeting the wrong person,” he said. “This is national-level policy, and had all the power of the state behind it.”<\/span><\/p>

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A friend of Sun’s who gave only her surname Hu said that international media attention may have contributed to the couple’s return home.<\/span><\/p>

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“Yes, I do think that it puts pressure [on Beijing], because they do listen to these opinions from the international community, whether they are good or bad,” she said.<\/span><\/p>

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“Of course [international attention] brings some pressure to bear; we just don’t really know to what extent, or to what degree.”<\/span><\/p>

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Sun’s outspoken views resulted in a jail term during the political turmoil and violence of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) under late supreme leader Mao Zedong.<\/span><\/p>

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Sun was among countless intellectuals and professionals in that era locked up in “cow-pens” while their jobs were taken over by the “revolutionary masses.”<\/span><\/p>

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