Yu Zhijian taken away during hunger strike
A former Tiananmen dissident previously jailed for defacing the portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate has been detained on suspicion of subversion after joining a hunger strike.
Police took former high school teacher Yu Zhijian, 43, from his home in Liuyang , Hunan province, on Saturday night after he started a hunger strike in support of dissident lawyer Gao Zhisheng's call for an end to persecution of activists, sources said.
State security police delivered a formal detention notice to his family on Monday, saying he had been 'detained on suspicion of incitement to subvert state power'.
'He was taken away from home before he finished his one-day hunger strike,' said a source. 'State security police said he had been doing politically incorrect things in the past year.'
Yu Zhijian's childhood friend and co-accused Yu Dongyue 39, was released on Wednesday after 16 years in jail. The two Yus, who are not blood related, and another co-accused, Lu Decheng, 43, threw paint-filled eggs at the Tiananmen Square portrait of Mao on May 23, 1989.