Chinese-Australian artist Guo Jian has been detained in Beijing the day after the Financial Times published an extended interview with him about his experience during the Tiananmen Square student demonstrations 25 years ago.
The detention appears to be part of a broader security crackdown in which dozens of people have been detained, put under house arrest or have simply “disappeared” in an attempt by the authorities to stop any commemoration of the 1989 massacre.
Mr Guo, a 52-year-old former soldier who joined the democracy movement as a young art student, was detained on Sunday night and taken to a detention centre on the outskirts of Beijing.