Wang Lin arrested for the crime of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” in connection with the Hong Kong Occupy Central protests

Boxun has learned that Beijing media personality Wang Lin disappeared on Thursday October 2 because she supported the Hong Kong Occupy Central protests in the Beijing eastern suburb of Songzhuang. Her last Wechat post cursed the daughter of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chung-ying for bragging about her privileged life on Facebook. Wang Lin’s brother went to the Beijing Jiangtai Road police station to inquire and learned that Wang Lin had been arrested on the charge of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.”

Wang Lin, female, born in the 1970s, originally from Wuhan in Hubei Province, studied abroad in France, worked in media in Hong Kong and Beijing, actively participated in various kinds of human rights defense activities, and supported artistic circles protesting the violation of civil rights.

On September 30, 2014, poet Wang Zang sent a tweet supporting the Hong Kong Occupy Central protests: “From the mainland enemy-occupied territory, Wang Zang, wearing black clothes, bald, carrying an umbrella in support of Hong Kong: it’s dark before my eyes, my disobedient middle finger and fist are not dark.” The next day his house was searched and possessions confiscated by the Beijing police, and he was arrested on suspicion of the crime of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.” He is being held in the Beijing Number One Detention Center.

Shortly afterward, due to supporting Wang Zang and the Hong Kong Occupy Central protests, the German Die Zeit weekly newspaper Beijing-based reporter Zhang Miao, Wang Lin, Cui Guangsha, Zhu Yanguang, Fei Xiaosheng, Ren Zhongyuan and others were arrested.

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