With more calls for “Jasmine Revolution” protests in China for this weekend, bloggers and others who share information about the gatherings are being detained. From the Telegraph:
Liang Haiyi, an unemployed 35-year-old woman in the northeast city of Harbin, was taken away Saturday after putting information about the protests on a Chinese chat rooms, according to a lawyer, said the statement by Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy She was questioned and taken away in handcuffs, and her ex-husband has received an official notice saying she has been charged with subversion, added the lawyer, who said he had spoken to the woman’s ex-husband.
“I don’t think she’s broken any law, she only reposted someone else’s writings on the Chinese internet and it wasn’t her own writing,” said Liang Xiaojun said. “Anyone overseas can see these materials.” Also detained for spreading word of the planned protest online were Hua Chunhui, from Wuxi city in eastern China, and Chen Wei from Suining city in the southwest, the group said in its statement.
See also “China detains, censors bloggers on ‘Jasmine Revolution’” from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Foreign journalists have also reported, via Twitter, being contacted by the PSB in Beijing and warned against reporting on any protests.
