{"id":2237,"date":"2014-07-21T12:35:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T12:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2014-07-21T12:42:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T12:42:47","slug":"what-its-like-to-be-interrogated-by-the-chinese-secret-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/what-its-like-to-be-interrogated-by-the-chinese-secret-police","title":{"rendered":"What it\u2019s like to be interrogated by the Chinese secret police"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Kabir Chibber @quinto_quarto July 20, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

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It can be grim to get on the wrong side of the Chinese government. Reuters\/Jason Lee<\/p>\n

\u201cI began to talk about Thoreau\u2019s essay on civil disobedience, but quickly felt like a ridiculous pedant. What\u2019s the point of talking about the virtues of civil disobedience in a Beijing police station?\u201d
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\nSo wonders Murong Xuecun, a Chinese author who was interrogated by the Chinese secret police for seven hours and wrote about it for the New York Times.
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\nHe was asked to come to the police station \u201cfor a chat\u201d by the guobao after reading an essay at a private commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Others who had contributed had been arrested already. And so Murong voluntarily attended the meeting and found himself in a shoe-print-covered room discussing the nature of the law with two officers.
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\n\u201cWe discussed whether citizens \u2018must obey the law,\u2019\u201d Murong wrote. \u201cI said good laws should be obeyed but evil laws must be challenged. They strongly disagreed, insisting that the law must be obeyed whether it\u2019s good or evil. \u2018And you\u2019re a graduate of the China University of Political Science and Law, eh?\u2019 the younger one asked mockingly.\u201d
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\nIn the end, after signing a transcript of the conversation, Murong\u2014whose real name is Hao Qun\u2014was released. In this respect, Murong got off pretty lightly. In 2011, the artist Ai Weiwei was detained for 81 days and interviewed more than 50 times. Officers watched him round the clock, their faces just inches from his, even as he slept\u2014insisting he keep his hands on top of the blanket throughout the night. After 14 days, he was moved to an army base where everything was padded with foam, even the taps.<\/p>\n

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