By Coconuts Hong Kong January 15, 2015 / 13:08 HKT
A woman holds a yellow umbrella at the pro-democracy protest site in Admiralty on Oct. 28. (Laurel Chor/Coconuts Media)
German journalist Angela Köckritz has written a harrowing account of her experience of trying to find the whereabouts of Zhang Miao, a Chinese woman who worked as her assistant while she covered Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement.
Together they had covered the early days of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong for German weekly newspaper Die Zeit.
During the trip, Zhang sent friends from back home photos from the protests, and made her profile photo a yellow ribbon, among other acts that imply her support for the pro-democracy protests.
Zhang has been detained since Oct. 2, the day after she returned to China from Hong Kong.
In her piece titled "They Have Miao: How my assistant got into trouble with Beijing’s security apparatus and I got to know the Chinese authorities", Köckritz retells her initial panic, her repeated attempts to find Zhang, her aggressive interrogations by Chinese officials, and how they accused her of being a spy.
Zhang wasn’t able to see her lawyer until Dec. 10, and Köckritz is still trying to have her case go through due process.
Read the piece here.
http://hongkong.coconuts.co/2015/01/15/chinese-assistant-german-newspaper-detained-after-posting-pro-umbrella-movement-photos
