China Not Giving Details About Filmmaker
By Alexa Olesen - abc NEWS International
March 27, 2006
BEIJING Mar 27, 2006 (AP)— Chinese police last month detained a documentary filmmaker who met with an outspoken lawyer and have refused to tell his family where he is being held or on what charges, his sister said.
Wu Hao, a filmmaker based in Beijing, has apparently been in police custody in the capital since Feb. 22, his sister, Wu Na, told The Associated Press. She demanded his release and that police explain why they are holding him.
Several human rights groups, including media watchdogs the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, also called for Wu Hao's immediate release.
Wu Hao was working on a documentary about unregistered Christian churches in China before he went missing, CPJ said.
One week after Wu Hao disappeared, officials at the Beijing Public Security Bureau told Wu Na her brother was being investigated but could not be visited by a lawyer. They also warned her not to talk to the media.
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I like your blog, but it only reflects the oppinion of one side.
I went to church in China and nobody arrested me, what gives? Could it be that I, as a guest to their country, showed the curtisey of not breaking their laws?
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Let’s for the moment put aside the argument weither China’s laws are right or wrong according to our senstivity. The fact remains their laws exist according to their sensitivity, and they have effects in their land.
Rule of law dictates laws are to be observed - else it’s anarchy. Unjust law should be changed within the existing reality and current states - else pay the price of civil disobidience (or revolution.)
I’m sure by now you are bored of these obvious principles of our proud western tradition, which many neglects while indicting China.
Let’s talk about weither the law that’s involved is just.
The reason churches go underground IMHO isn’t because they are “unauthorized” Catholics or Protestants. The Church I attended in Zhengzhou was a Protestant church.
My understanding of the reason chruches go “underground” is because they refuse to observe China’s law protecting children’s right to religious freedom that bars adults from indoctrinating children until the age of 16 (with flexibility).
Reailty is there ain’t enough GongAn to kick down the doors and arrest every parent that reads the Bible to their kids, or grandmothers who BaiBai the Kitchen God with little MeiMei.
But when pastors encouraged by foreign missionaries to break China’s laws and hold bible school, advertise to the whole village, invite the policeman’s kid to come every sunday for the brainswashing session - what do you think happens?
To what bobby fletcher said:
She did not get arrested because she went to a church recognized by the Chinese Gov. Those (Catholic) churches do not follow the Vatican thus is it really a Catholic church? The underground churches follow the Vatican and they get arrested because of that. The Chinese Gov doesn't want people to follow the Vatican they want people to follow them.
So yes you do have the right to believe in any of the 5 religions recognized by the China, or you can choose to continue believing in the faith you grew up with (if you are an expat) and go to an "Underground Church".
China is trying to improve its image in the eyes of others, but there is still much to go before that can be achieved.
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