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UPDATE: The partner of activist #JiXiaolong received a criminal detention notice saying Ji was detained on charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" & held at the Pudong New District Detention Center.
— CHRD人权捍卫者 (@CHRDnet) September 6, 2022
The move came after he wrote an open letter decrying COVID policies. https://t.co/D9TFHBZHXv
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“Shanghai police have detained a prominent rights activist who called on a local official to resign over the citywide COVID-19 lockdown in April.
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) September 3, 2022
Ji Xiaolong has been incommunicado, believed detained by the Shanghai state security police, for 24 hours.”https://t.co/cyrPJoqobZ
In the petition, Ji wrote that he was fine with being jailed for opposing government policies in an era of widespread internet censorship and surveillance of ordinary people.
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) September 3, 2022
An activist surnamed Liu from the central province of Hubei said the fact that critics of the government get arrested in China was unsurprising.
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) September 3, 2022
Liu said he is himself currently under residential surveillance in the run-up to the CCP's 20th National Congress on Oct. 16.
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) September 3, 2022
"Too many Chinese people have been brainwashed, and the democratic needs more people to wake up," Guo said. "Then some people have to take the lead if we are eventually to achieve freedom and democracy."
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) September 3, 2022
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