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Chinese authorities detain civil rights activist
Published: July 30 2009 11:57 | Last updated: July 30 2009 11:57
A prominent Chinese civil rights activist has been detained, in an escalation of Beijing’s ongoing crackdown on non-governmental organizations and free speech.
Xu Zhiyong, a law scholar and organizer of a legal help group that was shut down earlier this month, was taken away by uniformed policemen and plainclothes officers from his residential compound early Wednesday, eyewitnesses and collegues of Mr Xu said.
The detention follows a series of steps against NGOs and their organizers, especially people providing legal aid in cases seen as politically sensitive by the authorities.
The crackdown underscores the limits of the rule of law in a country where the Communist Party, not judges, traditionally decides on court cases. It comes as Beijing is facing a growing wave of dissent and unrest just as it prepares to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1.
Also on Wednesday, government officials raided the offices of the Yirenping Centre, a non-for-profit institution that offers health education and legal aid to people suffering from infectious diseases such as Hepatitis.
The centre was accused of illegal publishing, copies of its newsletter confiscated, and Lu Jun, the centre’s organizer, ordered to come in for questioning next Tuesday.
On July 18, authorities closed down the Open Constitution Initiative, a legal aid group founded by Mr Xu, on the grounds that it had failed to pay taxes due – an accusation Mr Xu denies. The group had been forced to register as a company because it was not given approval to register as an NGO. It now faces a fine of more than Rmb1.4m.
“I think we angered some evil power by working for conscience and justice,” said Mr Xu in a phone interview last week. He said the group would take legal steps to fight its abolition. “We don't have any money to pay this fine. Our funds come from donations in amounts of Rmb5 or Rmb10 at a time.”
Thursday, Mr Xu’s cellphone was off. OCI said it had lost contact to him since Wednesday morning.
OCI had irked the government by representing parents of children that fell ill or died from milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. The courts repeatedly rejected cases brought on behalf of the victims. OCI has also campaigned against China’s extra-legal detention system.
Dozens of other lawyers have lost their licenses after government-controlled professional organizations entrusted with renewing the licenses rejected their applications or put them on hold. Among those lawyers with problems, many had represented parents of children who died in collapsing schools in the earthquake in Sichuan last year and parents of melamine victims.
A man picking up the phone at the Bei Taipingzhuang police station close to Mr Xu’s home denied on Thursday that Mr Xu had been arrested by his police station.
But Yang Huiwen, a lawyer at the Open Constitution Initiative, said security guards at Mr Xu’s residential compound had seen Mr Xu be taken away.
In China, persons targeted by the authorities for political reasons are often detained and held in undisclosed locations for months before they are formally arrested and charged. 作者: cuigw 时间: 2009-7-31 12:13
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