A 15-year-old netizen in Xianyang (center) was arrested for “insulting a marshal”. (Web Photo)
On April 4, a notice from the Communist Party of China’s Xianyang “Net Security Patrol and Law Enforcement” showed that 15-year-old netizen “Guo Cheng Da Da” (a boy surnamed Zhang from Xianyang’s Sanyuan County) was disposed of after being reported for posting bad information.
Then, on April 6, the Communist Party’s Jiangsu Internet police issued a notice showing that another netizen surnamed Chen had been detained for allegedly using multiple accounts to continuously post “insulting” comments about the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, but the notice did not disclose the details.
The Chinese Communist Party has stepped up its efforts to block online speech, and on April 1, a netizen named “Sea and Air Guard” (Wang Mou, 63) was criminally detained for allegedly insulting martyr Wang Wei and insulting the martyr’s widow.
According to an April 2 report by Rights Defense Network, Chen Shaotian, a Henan-based netizen known as the “national scolding brother,” was recently sentenced to one year and two months in prison for “insulting and scandalizing state officials” for his insinuations about current politics on the Internet.
Chinese prosecutors accused Chen of making videos of himself and posting them on Twitter between March 2020 and January 2021, 50 of which were videos “speculating on hot and sensitive events in China, attacking the political system and insulting and scandalizing state officials,” because his words and actions “The videos “seriously damaged the country’s image.
Hebei rights activist Sun Wanping was previously fined seven days of administrative detention after being forcibly summoned for questioning by police over comments he made on Twitter.
Wang Jingyu, a 19-year-old U.S.-based Chinese, was fled across the border by Chinese authorities after she posted on Weibo questioning official claims about soldiers killed on the China-India border. Wang is just one of at least seven people involved in the controversy over his comments.
Wang said to foreign media that he was uncomfortable with the official reports of the Chinese Communist Party that were completely fabricated and reckless, and that he did not want to live in a country full of lies. He said that the CCP’s education starts from kindergarten with fabrications and deceptions, and that “this evil party, sooner or later, will die.”
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