The TuanDotStar case is seen as a landmark case of Chinese resistance to censorship. It has been one year since two 90-year-old volunteers from the website DuanDotStar, Chen Mei and Cai Wei, were detained by police for backing up deleted stories and comments during the coronary epidemic. The case was scheduled to go to trial on April 26, but was postponed.
The court session was postponed and the judge was missing
The Twitter account “TuanDotStar case Cai Wei’s father” posted today, April 26, saying, “The trial of #TuanDotStar originally scheduled for the 26th has been cancelled. This morning asked #LiYifan when the judge was going to hold the trial, only to say that the trial would not be held before May Day, and that the trial limit would be changed to when to wait for the notice, claiming that she was handling the case according to the law, and refused to tell the reason for the delay and hung up the phone quickly, and then never got through to her, and went to the Wenyuhe court in Chaoyang District in the afternoon to ask her in person why the trial was postponed again, and refused to see me after waiting all afternoon. “
Family letters do not give turn
“Another tweet by Cai Wei’s father: “Yesterday, the official lawyer # Liu Nanzheng went to see Cai Wei, we wrote a letter to # Cai Wei’s only life concerns are not conveyed, and did not tell him that I went to Beijing, saying that he was worried about the ups and downs of his mind, this statement and the previous public security This is exactly the same as the previous public security. Also told me he was doing well and never got sick again, indicating that he had been sick inside, but never told me.”
According to the Chinese web composite, Chen Mei and Cai Wei, two post-90s volunteers from the Endpoint Star website, and their girlfriend stored backups of many deleted reports and commentary articles during the coronavirus outbreak in mainland China on the site. They disappeared on April 19, 2020, and were later reportedly detained by police on “suspicion of provocation and harboring,” and have been in custody for one year.
Anti-censorship sign incident
According to Wikipedia, Endpoint Star is a site built on the GitHub open platform that uses “crowdsourcing” to back up articles that have been removed from platforms such as WeChat and Weibo.
The Endpoint Star incident is one of the landmark cases of censorship in the coronavirus epidemic. Two 90-year-old volunteers backed up deleted stories and articles from the epidemic to fight censorship, save memories and preserve real history.
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