Being governed by a totalitarian government, The Chinese people are repressed for any word that the regime considers damaging to its image..
01/03/2020
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The president of China, Xi Jinping, and his regime do not tolerate the slightest criticism, even when their mistakes are obvious. In the latest campaign of massive repression against dissent, numerous people were severely punished for expressing their dissatisfaction with the insufficient measures taken under the «leadership and personal guidance» of Xi Jinping to stop the spread of the coronavirus epidemic. Among them is Xu Zhiyong, a constitutional scholar and rights activist human rights, who was arrested after fleeing for criticizing Xi Jinping for his policies. The teacher Xu Zhangrun de la Universidad de Tsinghua fue puesto bajo arresto domiciliario por llamar a Xi Jinping «shameless».
In totalitarian China, Even an online comment can lead you to jail. In July 2018, in the province Southeast Fujian, Approximately a dozen police officers raided the home of a man and arrested him for having stated in Weibo, a chinese microblogging platform, what «Xi Jinping's anti-corruption work only cures the symptoms, not the disease» and «Xi Jinping's clique is extremely corrupt».
When his relatives went to visit him detention center in which he was confined, They were told that the man could not be visited because his comments were unfavorable to Xi Jinping and «were political issues». The detention center guards also commented that hiring a lawyer to defend him would be useless..
Another Internet user from Fujian was arrested and detained for two months for having posted on Weibo, In June of 2018, as follows: «Our national leaders do nothing practical, They only do superficial work». During the entire time he was detained, the guards often incited other inmates to beat him, causing internal injuries and a concussion.
The use of Internet censorship evasion tools to publish comments about the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) abroad will also cause problems with the authorities. The Twitter user «China Literary Inquisition Incident Inventory (@SpeechFreedomCN)» published online the verdicts of two convicted men. one of them, Yang Zhaoxing, coming from the county of Yanjing in the central province of Henan, He was sentenced to ten months in prison on 4 March 2019 for having evaded «Great Firewall» from China to make comments about the Chinese regime and its leaders on Twitter. Chen Guoji, from Chaoyang County, in the northeastern province of Liaoning, was sentenced to two years in prison and two years of probation for having published information considered to be «subversion of state power, attack on the state system and leaders, and inciting comments».
Police officers and Censors in China continually monitor online information, looking for any expression of dissatisfaction with the Government or criticism of its leaders. “The CCP strictly controls every word; no one can tell the truth, especially in written form. “The Government catches you and punishes you.”, said a netizen from the northern province of Hebei.
He himself published in his group WeChat, the dominant chat platform in China, at the end of last year the following: «This Government is inferior to the previous one. There is something wrong with their policies. Currently, It is difficult for people to earn money and the prices of goods have risen». Two days later he was arrested and detained for 15 days under the charge of «start fights and cause problems», In addition to receiving a fine of 1000 yuan (around 140 dollars).
A worker from the northern province of Shanxi was detained early in 2019 for having published in WeChat: «The Chinese government is corrupt and unfair. There are no human rights in China». This and other messages about «democratic and free life abroad» They were blocked shortly after being published. Two months later, The police of another province where he was working arrested him and detained him for ten days., accusing him of «invent stories and alter the social order». They took his ID card and phone.
According to a source, during the time he was detained, The police officers punished him by forcing him to sit upright for a long time and sing patriotic songs and recite «The standards to be a good student and child», Di Zi Gui (Disciple Nori) in Chinese, an ancient manual based on the teachings of China's most influential philosopher, Confucius (551-479 a. C.) about how to be a good person. If I couldn't memorize them, he was not allowed to sleep.
«There is no justice or democracy in China, which is governed by a dictatorial regime. If the system does not change, It will only generate more hatred from citizens and the CCP will come to an end.», said a netizen from Shanxi province.
