{"id":3385,"date":"2014-09-23T10:35:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T10:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2014-09-23T10:35:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T10:35:56","slug":"china-detains-writer-tie-liu-for-provoking-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-detains-writer-tie-liu-for-provoking-trouble","title":{"rendered":"China detains writer Tie Liu for ‘provoking trouble’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PLAChinese authorities said they detained Mr Huang for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chinese writer Huang Zerong, also known as Tie Liu, has been detained by police allegedly for writing articles critical of a senior official.<\/div>\n

Police arrested Mr Huang, 81, at his Beijing home early on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Mr Huang’s wife was later told he had been detained for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.<\/p>\n

She said he had written online articles which criticised Communist Party propaganda chief Liu Yunshan for restrictions of press freedom.<\/p>\n

She told the Associated Press that her husband’s medical carer had also been detained on the same charge, with no reason given as to why.<\/p>\n

The South China Morning Post<\/a> reported that Mr Huang served 23 years in prison when he was in his twenties for being a “rightist” during Mao Zedong’s crackdown on liberals.<\/p>\n

The Communist Party eventually cleared his name in 1980.<\/p>\n

\"PictureActivist Yang Maodong, also known as Guo Feixiong, is currently detained for allegedly disturbing public order<\/div>\n
\"InHuman rights lawyer and dissident Gao Zhisheng allegedly suffered abuse while in jail<\/div>\n

Widespread crackdown<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Huang’s arrest comes a week after a court in Guangzhou postponed the trial of prominent human rights activist Yang Maodong after he instructed his lawyers to boycott proceedings.<\/p>\n

Mr Yang, who is also known by his pen-name Guo Feixiang, has claimed that the trial is illegal and improper. He is accused of disturbing public order.<\/p>\n

Chinese authorities have mounted a widespread crackdown on dissenters in recent years.<\/p>\n

Dozens of activists and government critics are said to have been targeted, with many detained, and some prosecuted on broad public order charges.<\/p>\n

Last month, well-known Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng was released having allegedly suffering physical and psychological abuse in jail.<\/p>\n

BBC<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-29204874<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese authorities said they detained M … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[83,479,956,955],"views":6098,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}