Fei Chang Dao

Translator's Summary: Police subjected Wang Doe to five days administrative detention for posting the following "factually incorrect statements" in a QQ chat room:    "There has just been a riot in Xinjiang, Muslim Uyghurs killed Han people in Xinjiang. The Hui, who are also Muslims, go to Xinjiang and are subjected to high levels of interrogation and investigation by the police. Is that a problem?"    A court rescinded that punishment on the grounds that "the subjective purpose of the plaintiff’s posting of the aforementioned statements was to persuade Internet users in the same chat group, not to spread rumors." Wang's stated intent was to post "patriotic and government-loving statements in the hope that during these extraordinary times Hubei people would understand and cooperate with the actions of the government."    Even though the police stated in their administrative punishment decision that Wang had "disrupted the order of a

Details of this case, including photographs of Dong Zehua's activities in Tiananmen Square, can be found in this article from the Los Angles Times:  "He Tried to Commemorate Erased History. China Detained Him, Then Erased That Too" - https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-24/china-world-history-erasure-youth-censorship .  See also: "Judgment in Case of Woman Jailed Six Months for T-Shirt Commemorating Tiananmen" - http://blog.feichangdao.com/2021/06/woman-jailed-commemorating-tiananmen-judgment.html . People's Court of Dongcheng District, Beijing Criminal Judgment (2019) Jing 0101 Criminal First Instance No. 789 The public prosecution agency was the People's Procuratorate of Dongcheng. Defendant Dong Zehua, male, born May 7, 1991 in Xi'an, Shaanxi, Citizen ID No. XXX, Han ethnicity, undergraduate degree, unemployed, household registration location: Weiyang District, Xi'an, Shaanxi. On June 4, 2019, he was detained on suspicion of comm

On June 3, 2021, Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the state sponsored "Global Times" posted the following on Twitter: Chinese won't forget about Tiananmen incident.On the contrary, we'll constantly reflect on it in light of China’s development path since then as well as situation in many countries after color revolutions. It's futile for West to provoke Chinese society by commemorating the event Source: https://twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1400336409324523520 . This appears to becoming an annual tradition, as Hu posted something similar last year. It is true that an Internet user in China can immediately find the PRC government's official version of the events by searching Baidu for "Tiananmen Incident" ("天安门事件") - the first result is from the Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily, which provides this summary: May 20th, China Central Television broadcasts Li Peng and Yang Shangkun’s statements at the meeting of Party, government, a

Summary : A court found Jie guilty on the grounds that she "stood in an area crowded with tourists in the vicinity of the national flag pole in Tiananmen Square wearing a white t-shirt upon which was written 'Freedom of Speech, Vindicate June Fourth, Oppose Repeating the Tragedy.'" The court said that it showed leniency in sentencing Jie to six months imprisonment on the grounds that Jie "made a truthful confession of her crime." People's Court of Dongcheng, Beijing Criminal Judgment (2019) Jing 0101 Criminal First Instance No. 9461 The public prosecution agency was the People's Procuratorate of Dongcheng, Beijing. Defendant Jie Ruixue, female, born [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED], 1987 in Linkou County, Heilongjiang, Citizen ID No. XXX, Han ethnicity, college education, unemployed, household registration address: Linkou County, Heilongjiang. On August 22, 2019, she was taken into custody on suspicion of committing the crime of disturbing the peace, an