Famous Internet vlogger “Spicy Pen Small Ball” was arrested by authorities for his comments, becoming the first case to be convicted of “insulting martyrs” (Source: Twitter)
On March 1, Qiu Ziming, a well-known Internet vlogger who publicly questioned the Communist Party’s official casualty figures for the India-China conflict, was arrested on suspicion of “infringing on the honor and reputation of heroes and martyrs. “The first case of criminalization for “insulting martyrs” was arrested.
On March 1, the official WeChat public number of the Nanjing Municipal Public Prosecutor’s Office issued a notice stating that former journalist Qiu Ziming (Hot Pen Little Ball) had been arrested on suspicion of “infringing on the honor and reputation of heroes and martyrs.
The notice said that at 10:29 and 10:46 on February 19, 2021, the “suspect” Qiu Mouming used his personal registered account “Hot Pen Small Ball” on Sina Weibo to release two messages that disparaged and mocked the heroic martyrs who guarded the country’s borders. On February 20, the suspect Qiu Mouming was criminally detained by the public security authorities, and the Nanjing Jianye District Procuratorate intervened in the investigation in accordance with the law. on February 25, the public security authorities brought the crime of provocation and nuisance to the procuratorial authorities for approval of arrest.
The report also pointed out that Qiu Mouming used information on the network to degrade and mock heroic martyrs, infringing on the reputation and honor of heroic martyrs, saying that the social impact caused by this behavior is bad and the circumstances are serious.
At the same Time, Nanjing Public Security also made public the video of the “hot pen small ball” TV confession. The video shows the “hot pen small ball” dressed in a prison uniform, his face was mosaic. He said he had “lost his conscience” and felt “great remorse” for his actions.
The televised confessions are the CCP’s usual way of forcing people to submit to the authorities and make “repentant” statements against their will under the pressure of great mental stress and loss of freedom.
On Feb. 19, the Chinese Communist Party military released the first list of the number of Chinese killed in the India-China conflict last June. A total of four people were killed, including a battalion commander Chen Hongjun and soldiers Chen Xiangrong, Xiao Siyuan and Wang Zhuo Ran. Another battalion commander, Qi Fa Bao, was seriously wounded. The list was immediately questioned by various circles when it was released.
As early as June, when the clashes began, Indian media reported that the Chinese death toll was as high as 45. Subsequently, U.S., Russian and Japanese intelligence agencies have confirmed that at least 40 Chinese soldiers were killed in the bloody clashes in June. But the Chinese side has refused to release details. It was not until after a delay of eight months that it was made public for the first time, and the figures were so far from those of previous foreign media that they raised constant questions. A number of Chinese netizens have been hunted down by authorities for posting articles on the Internet questioning the situation.
On February 19, “Spicy Pen Small Ball” posted an article on his Weibo account, which has more than 2.4 million followers, questioning: “The biggest official, the head of the group, has survived. ‘”, on the basis of which, ‘the foreign army collapsed and fled with their heads in their hands. Anyway, we won”.
“Hot pen small ball” also said, “can write so good. You carefully taste, the sacrifice of these 4 people are because of the ‘rescue’ and merit, even to rescue people have died, then there must have not rescued ah, indicating 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 much smaller cost.”
After that, “Spicy Pen” was arrested by the Nanjing police. A number of Chinese netizens were subsequently arrested and detained by the authorities for “defaming the martyrs on the border” for questioning the number of Chinese casualties. In addition, Wang Jingyu, a Chongqing teenager living overseas, was also arrested by the police for making questionable comments, receiving death threats and involving his Family.
“Provocation and harassment” has become a common crime woven by the Chinese Communist Party
Cases of “provocation” for speaking out have been frequent in China in recent years. In particular, with the rise of the Internet era, the Chinese Communist authorities have labeled all discordant voices on the Internet as “provocative. In many of these cases, the victims of “provocation” include ordinary people, dissidents, university teachers, experts, scholars, resisters, and others.
On October 12, 2019, the first anniversary of the launch of the Twitter account of “China’s Word Jail Incident Inventory,” about 400 verdicts of “provocation and nuisance” cases in which people were convicted for their words have been collected. “The vast majority of these verdicts were obtained through the Chinese Judicial Documents website.
In addition, the account collected 1,818 cases of various “provocation” punishments for online speech between July 2013 and Dec. 14, 2020, the vast majority of which occurred in the last three years since 2018.
In addition to the large number of people defending their rights and petitioning for “provocation,” Chinese citizens are currently being hunted down and arrested for criticizing the government and a national leader, with the lesser cases being admonished, detained or imprisoned, and the more serious ones being convicted and sentenced to prison, according to the China Citizen Movement.
For example, Luo Daiqing, a 20-year-old international student who tweeted sarcastic comments about Chinese Communist Party leaders while studying at the University of Minnesota from 2018 to 2019, was arrested in July 2020 after returning to Wuhan from vacation, claiming that he had “created a negative social impact. “In November, he was sentenced to six months in prison for “nuisance seeking. The aforementioned Wang Jingyu is also one of those recently arrested by the Chinese Communist Party’s network.
Luo Xiang, a Chinese jurist, professor of criminal law at China University of Political Science and Law, and director of the Institute of Criminal Law, said in a lecture on the “Houda Law Exam” about the crime of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” in criminal law that “picking quarrels and provoking trouble is a golden weapon. “Everything is a provocation, as long as it is interpreted in a reasonable way in criminal law. He said that provocation is somewhat similar to the ancient Chinese “should not be a crime”, “that is, you can’t do it, you do it is provocation. So it’s funny.”
Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist, was convicted of “provoking and provoking trouble” and sentenced to four and a half years in December last year for communicating the facts of the Wuhan Epidemic to the outside world. This is one of the most influential cases of “conviction for words” in recent years. The case of “Spicy Pen” has also become the first case in which “insulting martyrs” has been criminalized. According to mainland media, Qiu Ziming will face up to three years in prison, detention, control or deprivation of political rights under the charge.
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