At 81 years old and after decades imprisoned in labor camps as a foe of the Communist Party, the Beijing writer and underground publisher Tie Liu had said that he was too old to seriously worry the security police anymore. But they raided his home over the weekend and detained him on a charge of “creating a disturbance,” his wife and friends said on Monday.
In the dark of early Sunday, the police banged on the door of Mr. Tie’s house in a suburb of eastern Beijing, handed him a summons, made him dress and then led him away, his wife, Ren Hengfang, said in a telephone interview. Officers searched their home, hauling away four laptop computers, an iPad and his cellphone, as well as piles of books and periodicals, many of them privately published by Mr. Tie, she said.
“He asked, ‘What disturbance have I been stirring up?’ and they said, ‘You’ll find out when it’s time to find out,’” Ms. Ren said. “We’d warned him to think twice before publishing his essays, but he’s a stubborn character.”
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Chris Buckley, New York Times via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1qJq0z4
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