{"id":7107,"date":"2016-06-04T11:13:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T15:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2016-06-07T11:26:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:26:22","slug":"at-least-three-activists-detained-in-beijing-over-tiananmen-massacre-commemoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/at-least-three-activists-detained-in-beijing-over-tiananmen-massacre-commemoration","title":{"rendered":"At least three activists detained in Beijing over Tiananmen Massacre commemoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least three activists have been detained in Beijing ahead of June 4 over a 1989 Tiananmen Massacre<\/span><\/a>\u00a0commemoration meeting that took place in Zhao Changqing\u2019s home. Human rights activists\u00a0Zhao Changqing, Zhang Baocheng, Xu Caihong\u00a0were detained in the early hours of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

According<\/span> to Chinese human rights advocate\u00a0Liu Xuehong,\u00a0she was video chatting with Xu when police visited Xu\u2019s home at 1:30am.\u00a0Liu said that the call was cut and she could no longer contact Xu afterwards. Zhao and Zhang were arrested at around 7 am, according to Zhou Fengsuo, San Francisco-based\u00a0co-founder of Humanitarian China.<\/p>\n

Zhao was recently released from prison, and is a survivor of the Tiananmen Massacre while Zhang is a member of\u00a0New Citizens Movement,\u00a0a civil rights collective in China.<\/p>\n

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Three out of seven activists in the picture have been detained. The caption on the wall says \u201cCommemorate June 4, don\u2019t forget the wounds of the country,\u201d and \u201cRelease Guo Feixiong and Yu Shiwen\u201d \u2013 human rights activists who are currently in prison. Photo: Zhou Fengsuo via Twitter.<\/p>\n

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Zhou told HKFP that\u00a0\u201cit\u2019s hard to predict [what the state might do] because Zhao Changqing in particular is a veteran and he was released not too long ago\u2026 but this can be really serious for him and for Zhang Baocheng.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is their basic right. They\u2019re just having a private meeting\u2026 likely a Bible study. They were praying together, just a private event in Zhao Changqing\u2019s home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Zhou called for the trio to be freed.<\/p>\n

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The group praying. Photo via Zhou Fengsuo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Chinese authorities have been cracking down on activities related to June 4th in recent days. According<\/span><\/a> to Ming Pao, Fu Zhihai was recently arrested for allegedly making bottles of wine that were\u00a0labelled with allusions to the 1989\u00a0massacre. A\u00a0poet named Ma Qing, who promoted the wine, was also arrested.<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.notey.com\/@hongkongfp_unofficial\/external\/9561216\/at-least-three-activists-detained-in-beijing-over-tiananmen-massacre-commemoration.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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