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Subways remove detained lawmaker’s photos

2014-09-23 08:47 Global Times Web Editor: Qian Ruisha
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Beijing's subway system has vowed to remove works of Qin Yuhai, a high-level official from Henan Province and an accomplished photographer on Monday, after he was put under disciplinary investigation.

The Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced on its official website on Sunday night that Qin, deputy head of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial People's Congress, is being investigated for suspected "serious violations of discipline and law."

Qin is also a council member of the China Photographers Association. He won China's most prestigious award for photography in 2007, and his works have been collected by the National Art Museum of China.

He also held an exhibition in Paris in 2013, according to the association's official website.

Many of his works depicting Henan's beautiful scenery were exhibited in subway stations in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou. He was also known as an avid traveler.

The Global Times found one of Qin's photos on display in the Dawanglu station of Beijing's subway Line 1 had yet to be removed.

Subway staff in the station would not comment on the remove of the photo.

"All his works will be removed," the Legal Mirror quoted an employee from Beijing subway as saying on Monday.

Shanghai's subway system will also remove all of Qin's works Monday, reported The Beijing News.

A similar phenomenon was observed when former security chief Zhou Yongkang fell from power.

The China University of Petroleum, his alma mater, deleted news reports about him and covered his inscription alongside the school motto on a wall at its Beijing campus.

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