Xu Zhangrun, a former professor at Tsinghua University’s law school who was expelled from his chair for allegedly visiting prostitutes, has recently been subjected to increased surveillance by authorities on all fronts. His friends revealed that Xu Zhangrun’s apartment has been newly installed with a number of high-tech surveillance cameras. The authorities are trying to cut off Xu Zhangrun’s contact with the outside world, not only by monitoring his phone calls, but also by preventing his friends from visiting him and imposing an economic blockade to prevent the outside world from reaching out to him.
The leader of the 1989 student movement, Ji Feng, is one of the few friends who have had contact with Xu Zhangrun recently. He told the station that a number of high-tech surveillance cameras have been installed outside Xu Zhangrun’s apartment in Beijing’s Sixth Ring Road district. It is understood that these lenses, in addition to targeting people entering and leaving, can also listen in.
Monsoon: In the past, someone stood guard now replaced with a camera, the camera is turned head, as people walk around the camera swings, can see, count to, there are nine cameras, if he immediately a out a appear to have something, immediately in place.
Authorities imposed an economic blockade
Xu Zhangrun has been banned from leaving the country by the authorities in recent years, and after his accident a few months ago, the authorities have intensified their tactics.
Ji Feng: Now the authorities not only won’t let him leave the country, they won’t even allow him to leave Beijing. He has a friend, a professor at Shou Shi University (Capital Normal University), because I took him to see Xu Zhangrun, and then back to the school, the school leadership to talk to him, based on the pressure of his former colleagues at Tsinghua University, are now reluctant or afraid to meet with him, and those who used to be closer to him, are now afraid, or do not want to be threatened, do not dare to communicate with him, he has called with some people to meet, but the other afraid. But the other party was afraid. Not long ago Songzhuang artist named Aisong had dinner with him, but now he was expelled from Songzhuang and not allowed to live in Songzhuang.
The authorities not only want to cut off Xu Zhongrun’s connections, but also use every possible means to impose an economic blockade on him.
Jifeng: A professor at Renmin University gave him 10,000 yuan and asked him to return it, and he was actively approached by the leadership to talk about why he gave Xu Zhangrun money. They raised 100,000 and 800 yuan, a group of people from Tsinghua University, the authorities do not allow to give.
The government has been accused of “moral turpitude” and dismissed Xu has hired a lawyer to solve the problem.
Xu Zhangrun, who has written many articles criticizing the government and leaders in recent years, was dismissed from his teaching position at Tsinghua University on the pretext of “moral turpitude” in July this year after being accused of prostitution and administratively detained for about a week by Sichuan Public Security Bureau. He earlier denied the allegations and hired a lawyer to resolve the dispute through the judicial process.
Jifeng: He has been so influential and vocal that he wrote an article for Songzhuang artist demolition a month before he was arrested in June this year, and later wrote a lot more for Geng Xiaonan’s appeal and gave interviews. Now the foreign media basically can’t interview him.
Isolated from the world, Xu Zhangrun posted an article on the Internet to express his feelings. He described his situation as an “ambush on all sides”. He criticized the authorities for using taxpayers’ hard-earned money to install surveillance systems, and the technology companies that designed the surveillance cameras, the upstream and downstream manufacturers that produced the equipment, and the contractors who installed the systems, all made a lot of money.
According to human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, Xu Zhangrun has long been regarded as a key stabilization and control target, with nothing to hide under high technology.
Pu Zhiqiang: China should say that there are no dead ends in the streets and alleys, and there are cameras everywhere. I believe that Xu Zhangrun’s influence, his home without these cameras, he will not be able to escape the eyes of the camera vigilance. Wherever he is, he will be captured.
Gao Yu, an independent media person familiar with Xu Zhangrun, told the station that she and her family have been under a lot of pressure recently, and she is reluctant to talk much about her friend’s recent situation.
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