{"id":36655,"date":"2009-04-01T13:26:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=36655"},"modified":"2009-04-11T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:40:00","slug":"china-detains-man-compiling-list-of-quake-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/04\/china-detains-man-compiling-list-of-quake-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"China Detains Man Compiling List of Quake Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Earthquake activist Tang Zuoren has been detained on allegations of subversion of state power. From Reuters<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n Police in southwestern China have detained a writer who was trying to compile a list of children killed in schools that collapsed during a devastating earthquake last year, an activist group said.<\/p>\n In town after town in Sichuan province, schools collapsed during the May 12, 2008 earthquake, in some cases as residential buildings around them stayed standing. Over 80,000 people were killed in the earthquake, but the government has never released the number of children who died.<\/p>\n Tan Zuoren wrote a proposal this year, called “5.12 Student Archive”, to ask web users and people who lost their children in the quake to help set up a detailed database of the victims.<\/p>\n He asked volunteers in the project to also compile any evidence of shoddy construction at the schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n