Beijing-based documentary filmmaker Du Bin disappeared in the Chinese capital - days ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown last week - causing concern among his family and human rights advocates over the journalist's likely detention by security organs.
The 41-year-old reporter, who had worked as a photographer for the New York Times, has not communicated with his family since the evening of May 31, his younger sister Du Jirong told the South China Morning Post.
"I don't know where he is," Du said. "Online, people say that he is in jail in [Beijing's] Fengtai district. He must be miserable, he has never been to jail."
Relatives found a summons order by the Fengtai Public Security Bureau in his deserted home, Du Jirong said. The bureau has yet to reply to her multiple requests for information on his whereabouts.
