{"id":403326,"date":"2019-04-18T20:52:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chinese-authorities-arrest-editors-involved-with-workers-protests\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T20:52:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T19:52:14","slug":"chinese-authorities-arrest-editors-involved-with-workers-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chinese-authorities-arrest-editors-involved-with-workers-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese authorities arrest editors involved with workers\u2019 protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Chinese authorities arrest editors involved with workers\u2019 protests<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Navin Dewage and Peter Symonds<br \/>\n    <br \/>18 April 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Chinese authorities intensified their crackdown on labour activists and leftist students last month, arresting journalists sympathetic to the plight of workers and critical of the government. This followed the detention of students and workers, 44 of whom are still in custody, for their involvement in a struggle by Jasic Technology workers last year to form an independent trade union.<\/p>\n<p> On March 20, Wei Zhili and Ke Chengbing were taken into custody. They are editors of <em>New Generation<\/em>, which reported on the conditions of the millions of internal migrant workers in China. Wei\u2019s laptop and mobile phone were confiscated. Yang Zhengjun, the publication\u2019s editor-in-chief, had been detained already on January 8.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International reported that a police officer had told Wei\u2019s father, who was present when the arrest was made, that his son would be sent to a detention centre for re-education. The officer accused Wei of \u201cnot having a proper job although graduating from a good school, and being \u2018brainwashed\u2019 to engage in anti-communist and counter-revolutionary activities that disturb the social order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Wei\u2019s wife, Zheng Churan, an activist for women\u2019s rights, told the <em>Financial Times<\/em>: \u201cMy husband just wants to help workers, he hasn\u2019t done anything wrong but still he has been detained and lost his freedom, it\u2019s devastating.\u201d She said she was worried the police would use \u201cabusive methods to force him to admit that he did something wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> A Guangdong-based activist told <em>Newsgram.com<\/em> that the <em>New Generation<\/em> editors were likely detained for assisting migrant workers suffering pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease, who were seeking&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/04\/18\/chin-a18.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Chinese authorities arrest editors involved with workers\u2019 protests By Navin Dewage and Peter Symonds 18 April 2019 Chinese authorities intensified their crackdown on labour activists and leftist students last month, arresting journalists sympathetic to the plight of workers and critical of the government. This followed the detention of students and workers, 44 of whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}