Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Great Regulars: A Beijing-based filmmaker who exposed abuses

of inmates at the Masanjia women's labor camp is being held in a detention center for "illegal publishing," rights activists and relatives said.

Du Bin, who is also a former New York Times photographer, has been held in the Fengtai district detention center in a southern suburb of Beijing since May 31 on suspicion of public order offenses linked to his recent publications, Beijing-based rights activist Hu Jia said on Tuesday.

from Luisetta Mudie: Radio Free Asia: Masanjia Filmmaker Held in Beijing Over 'Illegal Publishing'

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