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| Huang Zerong (Source: scmp.com) |
A well-known 81-year-old Chinese writer was taken from
his Beijing home and detained by police after he wrote several articles
critical of a senior politician, his wife said Monday, the South China Morning Post reports.
Police took away Huang Zerong, better known as Tie Liu,
on Sunday and issued a notice later that he had been detained on the vague
charge of causing trouble, his wife, Ren Hengfang, said.
She said police also detained Huang's medical
caregiver on the same charge on the same day. There was no explanation of why
the caregiver was detained.
Beijing police did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.
Huang's wife said he recently wrote several articles
criticizing Liu Yunshan, a member of the powerful Politburo Standing Committee
and the ruling Communist Party's propaganda chief, for tightening controls over
the news media. She said the articles appeared on overseas websites.
China's
leadership has become less intolerant of criticism, and authorities are
increasingly using coercion and detentions to suppress dissent.
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