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...authorities don't see it that way. Police have police have interrogated more than 100 of the document's original signatories; Liu Xiaobo, a dissident scholar who was one of the drafters, was arrested by Beijing police on Dec. 8 and remains in custody. In an article published in an official journal on Jan. 18, Jia Qinglin, China's fourth-highest official, warned that the country should avoid multiparty systems, separation of political powers and other "erroneous ideological interferences." And in December President Hu Jintao warned the country to "not waver" in implementing economic reform, a remark that was interpreted...
...December 8, the day before Charter 08 was posted on a U.S.-based Chinese web site, Beijing police arrested Liu Xiaobo, a dissident and one of the document's authors and signers. His lawyer, Mo Shaoping, says Liu is still being held incommunicado over a week later, and police have not revealed his whereabouts. Liu's supporters fear he could be charged with the offense of "inciting subversion of state power." Beijing-based activist Hu Jia was convicted of the same in April and sentenced to three and a half years in prison...
...State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said last week that Washington was "deeply concerned by reports that Chinese citizens have been detained, interrogated and harassed" since the document's publishing, and was "particularly concerned about the well being of Liu Xiaobo." Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told journalists on Dec. 16 that the U.S. position was another example of an unwelcome "interference of other nations in China's internal affairs...
...people joined Pu in signing the document. Bao Tong, a deputy to Communist Party Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who was purged from the government for his support of the 1989 pro-democracy protesters, is the most prominent former official on the list. It also includes activists such as Liu Xiaobo and Ding Zilin, who co-founded the Tiananmen Mothers group after her teenage son was killed in the 1989 crackdown. Several prominent lawyers and writers who are actively working and publishing also signed, giving Charter 08 more clout than it would carry if it were the work of only politically isolated...
...advocacy group Human Rights in China reported that on Monday night, the evening before the document was published, Beijing police raided the houses of two signers, activists Liu Xiaobo and Zhang Zhuhua, and took them into custody. Zhang was released after 12 hours, the group said, but Liu remains in detention. Pu, the lawyer, said Beijing police followed him on Dec. 9 and asked him to report his whereabouts on Dec. 10. That day marks the anniversary of the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the U.N. General Assembly...