{"id":131269,"date":"2012-02-09T03:18:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T10:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=131269"},"modified":"2012-02-09T03:27:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T10:27:33","slug":"us-citizen-ge-xun-beaten-interrogated-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/02\/us-citizen-ge-xun-beaten-interrogated-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"US Citizen Ge Xun Beaten &#038; Interrogated in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Seeing Red in China, <a href=\"http:\/\/seeingredinchina.com\/2012\/02\/08\/ge-xun-21-hours-in-beijing-part-1\/\"><strong>Yaxue Cao translates Ge Xun&#8217;s account of his recent detention and deportation<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/seeingredinchina.com\/2012\/02\/09\/ge-xun-21-hours-in-beijing-part-2\/\">(<strong>Part 2 here<\/strong>)<\/a>. Having travelled to Beijing for his mother&#8217;s funeral, Ge was held for 21 hours and violently interrogated about his involvement in various human rights causes, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecgc.blogspot.com\/\">online campaigning for Chen Guangcheng<\/a> [zh]:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Interrogator: \u201cWhat is it all about? You are the initiator, correct? Who are the members? How much money have you spent on it? Who gave you the money?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Me: \u201cI set it up to collect everything about Chen Guangcheng in Chinese or other languages. The purpose is to get more people to know about him, raise awareness of the plight of him and his family, and call for his freedom. It needs no money, nor did anyone give me money. It\u2019s built on a free blogging platform. Members are netizens whom I don\u2019t personally know \u2026. We don\u2019t originate content. I am not a leader, and there is no need for us to contact each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interrogator:  \u201cThat\u2019s not possible! How can a website belong to no organization, no leader, not spending money? Impossible!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve it or not, nobody leads,\u201d I said, thinking, Where do these people come from? Do you have to have a leader to call for freedom?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reading the whole account is strongly recommended: <a href=\"http:\/\/seeingredinchina.com\/2012\/02\/08\/ge-xun-21-hours-in-beijing-part-1\/\"><strong>Part 1<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/seeingredinchina.com\/2012\/02\/09\/ge-xun-21-hours-in-beijing-part-2\/\"><strong>Part 2<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Seeing Red in China, Yaxue Cao translates Ge Xun&#8217;s account of his recent detention and deportation (Part 2 here). Having travelled to Beijing for his mother&#8217;s funeral, Ge was held for 21 hours and violently interrogated about his involvement in various human rights causes, including online campaigning for Chen Guangcheng [zh]: Interrogator: \u201cWhat is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":962,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,34,10,14744,14745,14746,100],"tags":[5867,5903,8247,7014,1356,6379],"class_list":["post-131269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-human-rights","category-law","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","tag-americans-in-china","tag-chen-guangcheng","tag-detention","tag-interrogation","tag-online-activism","tag-united-states","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>US Citizen Ge Xun Beaten &amp; Interrogated in Beijing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/02\/us-citizen-ge-xun-beaten-interrogated-in-beijing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US Citizen Ge Xun Beaten &amp; Interrogated in Beijing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At Seeing Red in China, Yaxue Cao translates Ge Xun&#8217;s account of his recent detention and deportation (Part 2 here). 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