After former New York Times photojournalist and independent writer-reporter Du Bin was detained at the end of last year, it was recently revealed that Du Bin’s lawyer applied for bail, but was denied by the police.
According to a mainland source, Du Bin’s lawyer went to the Daxing District Detention Center in Beijing on January 19 to apply for bail for Du Bin, but was denied bail by the police. The informant hopes that the outside world will show solidarity with Du Bin.
Du Bin, was arrested on December 16, 2020 by Suncun Police Station of Beijing Daxing Branch on suspicion of provoking trouble and was later detained in Beijing Daxing District Detention Center. He was secretly arrested by the Beijing State Security on the eve of the 24th anniversary of June 4, 2013, and released on bail after 37 days in detention.
Hu Jia, a friend of Du Bin’s and a Beijing-based human rights activist, told the Epoch Times in late 2020 that Du Bin’s online comments and his books on sensitive topics in society and history, which the Communist Party does not allow to be explored, have upset the Chinese Communist Party authorities.
Du Bin, 48, was a contracted photojournalist for the Beijing bureau of the New York Times and has published books such as Toothbrush, Tiananmen Massacre, Ma Sanjia Roar, Petitioners, and Changchun Starvation War. His photojournalism work has been published in the International Herald Tribune, Time Magazine, The Guardian (UK), Star Pictorial (Germany) and other mainstream Western media. He was awarded the 14th Human Rights Journalism Award for “Close-up Photography” by the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
After 2013, he published Toothbrush, Tiananmen Massacre, Vaginal Coma, Ma Sanjia Roar, Petitioners, and Unjust Ghosts.
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