The mainland China’s Relay Hunger Strike in support of human rights and to protest against violence started at 6:00 a.m. on February 4, 2006. Many non-governmental organizations and individuals have expressed their support and participated in the relay hunger strike started by attorney Gao Zhisheng and other human rights advocates. Mr. Qi Zhiyong has been under house arrest since February 9 for participating in the hunger strike.
The Epoch Times interviewed Mr. Qi Zhiyong and Mr. Hu Jia while they were under house arrest.
Mr. Qi Zhiyong said the Relay Hunger Strike is just like a rising storm taking over the whole of China; what the Chinese communist regime fears the most is people’s power
It was reported that, at 4:00 pm on February 8, when Attorney Guo Feixiong arrived at the Xinhua gate for a peaceful petition, the police took him away immediately. The Beijing authority refused to release any information about him. At 4:30 pm, Mr. Qi Zhiyong arrived at the scene and witnessed police vehicles driving back and forth carting people and the democratic movement activists appealing whom they considered dangerous. Mr. Qi’s ID card was impounded on the spot.
