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Associated Press

Eva Li

Chinese police detained a prominent ­human rights campaigner for ­allegedly trying to buy train tickets using other people’s identification cards, his lawyer said ­on Thursday.
Jiang Tianyong’s family also said they last heard from him on ­November 21 when the activist was in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province.
He left Beijing, possibly to visit his friend Xie Yang, who had been arrested in a crackdown on rights lawyers and activists that began in July last year, Jiang’s lawyer Qin Chenshou said.
United Nations special rapporteur on human rights Philip Alston said last week he was concerned that Jiang’s disappearance was a “reprisal” for a meeting they held in August. The US State Department has also pressed for information about Jiang’s whereabouts.

Qin said police in Changsha told him on Wednesday that Jiang was put under administrative detention for nine days, beginning November 22.
He was detained because he used other people’s identification cards to buy more than 20 train tickets, Qin quoted police as ­saying.
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Jiang should have been released by December 1, but his family still had not seen him. They did not know whether he was still being held or was again taken into custody after his release.
Qin said neither he nor the family had received any written notice about the detention.
An officer at the city’s police station said he had no idea about the case and hung up.
People must show their identification when buying train tickets on the mainland. Qin said it would not be surprising if Jiang had used IDs belonging to family members to buy a ticket.
“Using his own ID, Jiang might not have been able to buy the tickets and take a trip at will,” Qin said.
Jiang’s wife, Jin Bianling, said she last received a message from him on November 21 saying he had bought a ticket for a late-night train to Beijing.
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From her home in California, Jin said police on December 4 raided a Beijing flat that Jiang sometimes used and took away personal items. They also entered his brother’s Beijing flat and took away the tenant, she said.
Jiang was a lawyer before being disbarred in 2009 but continued his activism, most recently helping to publicise the plight of nearly two dozen lawyers arrested in the crackdown.
He was also detained and beaten by police as part of his past human rights work involving some of the mainland’s most sensitive cases, including that of blind activist Chen Guangcheng and followers of the banned Falun Gong spiritual group.
Additional reporting by Associated Press


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Human rights activist Jiang Tianyong speaks to journalists in May 2012 after his failed attempt to see blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng. Chinese police have confirmed they detained Jiang, his lawyer said, but it was unclear where he was. Photo: AP

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Jiang Tianyong tried to use other people’s identification to buy train tickets, attorney Qin Chenshou quotes police as saying
