Reasons for Xie Chaoping's arrest

20 10,10 On August 9, he was arrested by plainclothes police in Weinan, Shaanxi Province from the rented Lugu Dongli Community in Shijingshan District. When leaving, the police verbally left a sentence "suspected of illegal business operation". The so-called "illegal operation" is because Xie Chaoping published 10000 volumes of documentary literature "The Great Migration" at his own expense. This is the result of Xie Chaoping's three-year interview and records some historical problems left over by the adherents of Sanmenxia, and the immigrants in Weinan area are the protagonists of the work.

Why does writing a book become "illegal business"? On August 30th, the person in charge of the Legal Department of Linyi District Public Security Bureau of Weinan City said on the phone that it was "inconvenient to say more". Xie Chaoping, who resigned as a journalist in June this year, rented in Lugu Dongli Community, Shijingshan District. On August 29th, his wife, Li Qiong, said that at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of August 19, someone knocked at the door, claiming to be a "census". After opening the door, she found that there were seven people in plain clothes. After confirming that the renter was Xie Chaoping, "they rushed to grab Xie Chaoping and put on handcuffs." Li Qiong said that they also shouted, "They are looking for Xie Chaoping."

After that, the other party showed the police officer's card. Four people are from Weinan, Shaanxi Province, and three Beijing policemen are accompanying them. In the next two hours, the police searched the residence and took away Xie Chaoping's manuscript, laptop, voice recorder and USB flash drive. At the request of Xie Chaoping, the police made a checklist, but the checklist was not left.

Li Qiong said that she asked the police to show the summoning procedure, and the police finally verbally said that she was "suspected of illegal business operation". At 8 o'clock that night, Xie Chaoping was taken away. On the evening of 23rd, Xie Chaoping was taken to Beijing West Railway Station and taken to Weinan by train. On August 30th, Zhou Ze, Xie Chaoping's lawyer, went to the Legal Department of Linwei District Public Security Bureau in Weinan City to learn about the case, and the answer was "suspected illegal business operation", especially the long documentary literature "Great Migration" published by Xie Chaoping in May this year. The manuscript records that period of history with the background of the Yellow River immigrants in Sanmenxia in the 1950s.

Xie Chaoping, a native of Pingchang, Sichuan, worked as a teacher. Later, he was admitted and worked in the county supervision bureau. Later, he was transferred to Dazhou Procuratorate and has been working as a writer.

In 2005, Xie Chaoping went through the formalities of early resignation and applied for a job as a reporter in Fiona Fang magazine, a subsidiary of Procuratorate Daily. In 2006, Xie Chaoping learned about the historical legacy of Sanmenxia adherents from Li Wanmin, chairman of the labor union of Weinan Immigration Bureau, and began to pay attention to this issue. Li Qiong said that in the next three years, Xie Chaoping would go to Shaanxi to interview immigrants as soon as he was free. With more interview materials, Xie Chaoping decided to write a book. Li Wanmin said that when he went to the publishing house, Xie Chaoping contacted him and planned to "send" some books to the immigrants and entrust them to find a place to store them in Weinan. On June 26th, the book was sent to Weinan. The next day, the Weinan Literature Inspection Team confiscated all the magazines on the grounds that they were illegal publications. At the same time, the governments of counties and cities in the reservoir area also sent public security, township cadres and document inspectors to seek the supplement of the great migration from the immigrants' homes.

Dong Shengxin, a representative of huayin city immigrants under Weinan, said that more than 4,600 copies of The Great Migration were also seized by the huayin city Municipal Bureau of Culture and Sports.

Since then, the press and publication department of Weinan City and the public security department have gone to Shanxi to ask for a review of the legality of books.

"They found the Provincial Publishing Bureau and the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, which was very troublesome." On August 30th, Wang Zuozhong, president of Spark magazine, said that the publishing department had finally found out the irregularities in this supplement. According to the regulations, publishing units have no right to publish supplements without authorization, and supplements need to be submitted for approval step by step, but Beijing editorial department has not done so.

Wei Pizhi, executive director of Beijing editorial department of Spark magazine, said, "Because I have no experience, I didn't go through the approval process."

On July 24th, Shanxi Press and Publication Bureau informed Spark magazine to stop publishing the second half of the magazine. On 3 1, the person in charge of the newspaper of Shanxi Press and Publication Bureau said that the matter was still under investigation.