These so-called criminals are often convicted for saying something disrespectful to the government or the Chinese Communist Party leaders on the Internet. A year ago, Anhui cartoonist Zhang Dongning was sent to jail for “insulting China” for drawing a pig.
Recently, there was another big event in Beijing that has stirred up the world. Last year, there was a military conflict between China and India, and both sides had casualties, and the Indian side would inform the media about the casualties in a timely manner, but the Chinese Communist Party always concealed the information, and then a Chinese netizen put the tombstones of the martyrs who died in the war on the Internet, which caused a hot debate. The Chinese Communist Party later cited “state secrets” as the reason for deleting the post and arresting those involved, including Pan Rui, son of real estate tycoon Pan Shiyi.
According to incriminating evidence provided by Beijing police, on June 23, 2020, Pan Rui, who was abroad, said on his Weibo account, “I heard that at least one camp was buried alive in India, and there seems to be no chance of a sky burial.” It was such an irrelevant remark that actually brought a disaster to Pan Shwe and his Family. Since Pan Rui was abroad at the Time, there was nothing the Beijing police could do about it. However, his father, Pan Shiyi, is a sensitive and wealthy figure, and a key target of the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to fight landlords and exclude dissidents, so someone made a big deal out of his son Pan Rui’s blog post, charging him with “allegedly defaming PLA border guards” and forcing the couple to urge his son to return to China as soon as possible. They forced Pan Shiyi and his wife to urge their son Pan Rui to return to China as soon as possible for investigation.
A netizen said: “In China, if the party says you are guilty, you are guilty, and if you are not guilty, you are also guilty. If it doesn’t work, then the tried and true ‘report from the public’ is used. The ‘Pan Rui military abuse case’ is the best example.”
On March 15, 2021, the official microblog of Beijing Haidian Public Security Bureau issued a notice saying that recently, after the news media reported the heroic deeds of the officers and soldiers defending the homeland garrison, some people reported to the police that a Sina Weibo user had published rumors in the comment section of other people’s microblogs on June 23, 2020 to defame the heroic martyrs, causing a bad social impact.
The notice said: “After police investigation and verification, the microblog user Pan Mou (male, 30 years old) has been outside the country after leaving Beijing on February 2, 2020. At present, the Haidian Public Security Bureau has (issued) a criminal detention (notice) for Pan in accordance with the law, and carried out a fugitive hunt for him. Here, the police urge him to return to China as soon as possible to be investigated and dealt with.”
In fact, the Chinese Communist Party’s concealment of information about the Sino-Indian war is the culprit of this incident. in June 2020, the Sino-Indian border clash resulted in military casualties on both sides, and the Indian side announced the number and list of casualties to the media on the same day, but the Chinese side always concealed it, and only on February 19 this year (eight months later) did the PLA Daily announce that a total of four Chinese officers and soldiers died in the Sino-Indian border clash. There is no shortage of debate and suspicion among Chinese civilians about the veracity of the casualty count. Netizens questioned it for two reasons: first, in June 2020, all major Indian media reported the death toll of Chinese soldiers to be between 35 and 50; second, the number of tombstones of martyrs killed on the Chinese side in the war differed from the number reported by the official Chinese Communist Party media. The Chinese Communist Party not only refused to explain to the public, but also came out to arrest netizens for their questions.
Between Feb. 19 and Feb. 22, six people were detained by CCP security authorities for “defaming martyrs” on the Internet, according to a report by Pharma News. One person was placed in administrative detention or criminal detention in Nanjing, Qinhuangdao in Hebei, Maoming in Guangdong, Guiyang, Beijing and Mianyang in Sichuan, respectively. In addition, police in Chongqing placed a Chongqing citizen living abroad in criminal detention on “suspicion of provocation and harassment” and “fled the country online. The reason for the actions taken by the public security authorities in various places is “reports from the public”.
In the face of online opinion, Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, tweeted the same day, “China’s delay in announcing the list of dead is a gesture of goodwill, not to further stimulate India, which is a strong man’s gesture.” In response to Hu Xijin’s remarks, a netizen said, “The Chinese Communist Party deceives the public by always making the reason so grand.”
Some informed netizens said that there is a big mystery behind this conviction of Pan Rui for his words. The Communist Party’s high-profile pursuit of Pan Rui, who is outside the country, is just a cover for a crackdown on the Pan Shiyi couple’s annexation of their family fortune. Long before Ren and Ma’s accident, the Chinese Communist Party had used its online army to stigmatize Pan Shiyi and his wife, calling them “American spies” and “traitors to the country”. It is clear that the Chinese Communist Party has long put Pan Shiyi and his wife on a par with business tycoons such as Ren Zhiqiang and Jack Ma.
In China, a new round of “fight the rich and divide the land” campaign is underway, and a large number of entrepreneurs are in trouble one after another.
As the saying goes, a man is not guilty, but a man is guilty. At present, the Chinese government at all levels is in a difficult economic situation, and it is very difficult to pay salaries. But Xi Jinping, on the other hand, has been pushing the correctness of the “Fight the rich and divide the land” campaign in a high profile manner at the “Summary and Commendation Conference on Poverty Alleviation”, which is obviously a political implication, coupled with the fact that a large number of entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma of Alibaba and Ma Huateng of Tencent have recently “The Chinese Communist Party is obviously not happy about this, and it is not surprising that the Pan family is in trouble, but rather strange if they are not.
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