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<p>From: Magnus Fiskesjö <<a href="mailto:magnus.fiskesjo@cornell.edu">magnus.fiskesjo@cornell.edu</a>><br />
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<p>Source: BBC News (9/15/14): <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29204874">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29204874</a></p>
<p>China detains writer Tie Liu for ‘provoking trouble’</p>
<p>Chinese writer Huang Zerong, also known as Tie Liu, has been detained by police allegedly for writing articles critical of a senior official.</p>
<p>Police arrested Mr Huang, 81, at his Beijing home early on Sunday morning.</p>
<p>Mr Huang’s wife was later told he had been detained for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.</p>
<p>She said he had written online articles which criticised Communist Party propaganda chief Liu Yunshan for restrictions of press freedom.</p>
<p>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>
<p>The South China Morning Post 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>
<p>The Communist Party eventually cleared his name in 1980.</p>
<p>Picture of Yang Maodong, also known as Guo Feixiong, presented at a hearing of a House Foreign Affairs Committee subcommittee in Washington, DC, on October 29, 2013. Activist Yang Maodong, also known as Guo Feixiong, is currently detained for allegedly disturbing public order</p>
<p>In this 7 April 2010 file photo, Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer, gestures during an interview at a tea house in Beijing, China. Human rights lawyer and dissident Gao Zhisheng allegedly suffered abuse while in jail</p>
<p>Widespread crackdown</p>
<p>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>
<p>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>
<p>Chinese authorities have mounted a widespread crackdown on dissenters in recent years.</p>
<p>Dozens of activists and government critics are said to have been targeted, with many detained, and some prosecuted on broad public order charges.</p>
<p>Last month, well-known Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng was released having allegedly suffering physical and psychological abuse in jail.</p>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on September 15, 2014 </div>
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