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Blogger Lu Yuyu & Former Wukan Chief Arrested

Citizen journalist Lu Yuyu and his girlfriend Li Tingyu have been chronicling “mass incidents” in China since 2012 on their blogs and from the Twitter account @wickedonnaa. Friends of the bloggers began to fear that they had been detained after their regularly updated accounts ceased activity on June 14. Late last month Chinese Human Rights Defenders confirmed that the two were in detention on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,”