“Spicy Pen”, whose real name is Qiu Ziming, was arrested for questioning the official death toll at the India-China border and forced to confess to the crime on television. (composite photo)
Chinese Internet vlogger “Spicy Pen Little Ball” was arrested by authorities for questioning the Communist Party’s death toll at the China-India border, and was forced to “confess” on March 1 on CCTV.
On March 1, the Communist Party of China’s “Nanjing Procuratorate” official WeChat public number released news that Nanjing procuratorial authorities had approved the arrest of Qiu Mouming, the owner of the “Spicy Pen Small Ball” microblog. On February 20, Qiu Mouming was placed in criminal detention by the public security authorities, and on February 25, he was arrested by the public security authorities for “allegedly provoking and provoking trouble”. On Feb. 25, the public security department submitted the case to the procuratorial authorities for approval of arrest on “suspicion of provoking and provoking trouble”.
Subsequently, a short video brand sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party‘s top prosecutor’s newspaper, Procuratorate Daily, released footage of Qiu Mouming’s “confession” after his arrest. The CCTV news broadcast that night also showed a nearly one-minute “confession” of guilt.
In the video, “Spicy Pen” is seen wearing a mosaic of his face and a prisoner’s uniform, saying that his actions have “shattered his conscience” and that he feels “great remorse.
At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed when the worst conflict in 45 years erupted on the India-China border last June. The Chinese government has not released the number of dead and wounded since then. Only in February this year did the Communist Party announce that “four soldiers were killed and one chief was seriously injured” in the conflict.
The eight-month delay in announcing the number of dead and wounded has raised many questions. Several netizens have been arrested for posting comments online questioning the death toll of Chinese military personnel. One of them said, “The biggest officer, the regiment commander, survived. The most important thing is that you can get the most out of your Life. On this basis, ‘the foreign army collapsed and fled with their heads in their hands’. Anyway, we won”.
In addition, the “hot pen small ball” said, “you carefully pin, the sacrifice of these 4 people are because of the ‘rescue’ and merit, even to save people are sacrificed, then there must be not saved ah, that means that not only 4 people were killed in action . This is the reason why India dared to announce the number and list of the fallen in the first place, in India’s view, they won and at a smaller cost.”
“Born in 1982 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Qiu Ziming has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in law from the Department of Political Science at Nanjing University, and has worked as an investigative reporter for the Jinling Evening News and the Economic Observer.
In addition to “Spicy Pen”, a number of Chinese netizens have been arrested for questioning the official figures of the Chinese Communist Party. So far, at least six netizens from Beijing, Hebei, Guizhou, Guangdong, Sichuan, and Jiangsu have been detained, and Wang Jingyu, a young man from Chongqing, has been arrested and harassed by his Family while he is overseas and being “fugitive from justice.
The “televised confessions” are a feature and product of the Chinese Communist Party’s claim of a society governed by the rule of law. This practice, inherited from the Cultural Revolution, is a form of “parading in the streets”, in which the person concerned is forced to submit to pressure from the authorities and make a “confession” against his or her will, while behind bars, isolated and undergoing great physical and mental torture, which is disliked by human rights groups.
In February of this year, the UK announced that it was revoking the broadcasting license of the Chinese Communist Party’s international media (CGTN) in the UK, also because CGTN and CCTV had repeatedly broadcast clips of Chinese detainees being “forced to confess” to crimes under duress.
Human rights NGO Defenders said CGTN’s broadcast of the material amounted to a “deliberate distortion of the facts and a clear falsification,” in violation of Ofcom’s rules on impartiality and accuracy.
Han Feilong was arrested in 2013 while working for multinational pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline in China, and was held in Shanghai for 23 months before being forced to “confess” to his crimes on CCTV.
Han Feilong said he was chained to a metal chair for his “trial” while six uniformed “judges” sat on the stage and the chief interrogator read questions from a clipboard and “instructed” Han Fei-lung was told how to answer.
Simon Cheng, a former employee of the British Consulate General in Hong Kong, was kidnapped by Chinese authorities during a short business trip to Shenzhen in August 2019 and forced to appear on CCTV to “confess” to “betraying his country” and “prostitution. He was forced to appear on CCTV and confess to “betraying his country” and “visiting prostitutes. Afterwards, Zheng confessed to being detained and tortured by the Chinese authorities for 15 days. In some scenes, he said, “they prepared an entire script for me to read.
British detectives Han Feilong and Zheng Wenjie complained to Ofcom and led to the revocation of CGTN’s broadcasting license in the UK.
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