The tyranny of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is unpopular, and there are calls from the public to “dismantle the CPC”. Recently, a lawyer in Longgang, Zhejiang province, was detained and fined for posting on Weibo that he proposed “dissolving the CCP and electing Tsai Ing-wen as interim president.
The Twitter account “China Word Jail Incident Inventory” posted a message on May 4, saying that Cai Zucheng, a lawyer in Longgang, Zhejiang province, had been detained and fined for posting on his Weibo account, “I have a good way to make the motherland reunify peacefully: dissolve the CCP and elect Cai Ing-wen as interim president, and then elect the official president. ” He was sentenced to 13 days of detention and fined 1,000 yuan.
Authorities claimed that Tsai Zucheng often posted comments on the Internet that criticized, exposed, attacked and flirted with the work of the ruling party and the government.
According to the verdict document accompanying the tweet, Cai Zucheng, born in 1973 and living in Longgang, Zhejiang province, was charged with making inappropriate comments on microblogs that constituted “provoking and provoking trouble, which is a serious circumstance” and was sentenced to 13 days of administrative detention and fined 1,000 yuan.
The post calling for the “dissolution of the Chinese Communist Party” was published on July 2 last year, and three days later, Cai Zucheng sent another post praising the “democratic system,” saying: “Civilized countries are not free of darkness and nastiness, but dare to expose them; democratic countries are not free of injustice and flaws, but do their best to make it better. A democratic country does not have injustice and defects, but tries its best to eliminate injustice and defects. …… The advantage of a democratic country is that every time a deep exposure reveals a scandal, it will promote the improvement of the social system and the progress of human civilization.
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In response to the authorities’ punishment, Cai Zucheng expressed his disagreement and filed an appeal. He said he only exercised his constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression, but lost his case. Currently, Cai Zucheng’s Weibo account has been emptied.
In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party has tightened its grip on public opinion, and there has been a spate of text-jail incidents. In a May 3 posting on “China’s Text Jail Incident Inventory,” a police officer in Dalian, Liaoning province, was detained for seven days for “making inappropriate remarks and slandering the government’s credibility” after mentioning in a WeChat group that the government was concealing the truth about the epidemic. Ju filed an administrative reconsideration and initiated two administrative lawsuits, both of which failed.
According to the Voice of America, the “Chinese Communist Party’s Text Jail Incident Inventory” Twitter account has built a database of nearly 2,000 cases of convictions for speech from 2013 to the present, using public sources such as government websites, court rulings, official media reports and police social media accounts.
The account’s tweeter, who is still based in China, said these convictions for speech are just the tip of the iceberg. He said that although he may be the next person to be “inventoried,” there is no turning back so that there will be no more convictions for speech in China.
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