Wang Yifeng, a well-known media figure in mainland China, sent an open letter online on Jan. 25 asking for help. (Photo source: Weibo)
Wang Yifeng, a well-known media figure in mainland China, sent an open letter online on January 25, saying that he has been under scrutiny by the Zhejiang State Security Department and Hangzhou State Security Bureau since August 2020, demanding that he confess to having ties with foreign forces and that he be convicted of “leaking state secrets”. The news has raised concerns.
The Central News Agency reported that Wang Qifeng is a “post-90s” Sichuan native who graduated from Renmin University of China and was called “Representative Wang” by his friends after running for the 2011 National People’s Congress in Beijing‘s Haidian District. Wang worked as a journalist for Caixin Media before joining Alibaba in 2015. He has also started his own public WeChat account, “Yuan Jiangong Says”, and writes occasional commentaries on China’s political and economic issues under the pseudonym “Yuan Jiangong”, which are published in the Hong Kong media.
On January 25, 2021, Wang Yifeng said in an open letter that he had “no other choice”. On the morning of August 8, 2020, officers from the Zhejiang Provincial State Security Bureau and Hangzhou State Security Bureau broke into his Home and took him away for interrogation, “after six days of difficult interrogation.
He was then repeatedly taken away by police for questioning, and authorities demanded that he “confess his links with foreign forces and that he had leaked information related to National Security.
“The allegations against me are absurd,” Wang said. “I’m just a grassroots person who never inquired about anything and never held state secrets or information. It is true that I was once a fan of ‘Kremlinology,’ but I also only analyzed it based on historical experience and public information, and never had any information in the legal definition.” Nevertheless, the authorities scrutinized him for a long Time and found him “confronting the investigation and refusing to give an account.” As a result, he spent “five months under great mental pressure.”
He pointed out that on January 21 of this year, the state security authorities issued an ultimatum to him, warning him that if he did not give a clear account of his problems, he would be detained, assigned to residential surveillance, and eventually tried and sentenced to prison, and that the officers even threatened him: “For those who eat the benefits of GCD (Communist Party) policies and want to smash the pot of GCD, it is easy for us to smash your rice bowl. “.
But Wang Yifeng said, “I have been trying to communicate with them in order to seek a solution to the matter. I said, I am just an ordinary good people, I was some public expression when I was young, but these years also long ago stopped talking, I started to work in the enterprise in 2015, has been thinking about is to make money to buy a house to live an ordinary Life, I have seen what people, ate a few meals, chatted a few days, and absolutely no purpose, I also will not take a small notebook every day to write down, I can not remember. “
“This is my confession, but also my report letter.” For the harassment of Zhejiang Province and Hangzhou State Security Department, Wang Yifeng decided to make things public, “If horizontal is also death, vertical is also death, then might as well die with a bang! I’ve had enough, I’m not cooperating!”
In addition, Wang Yifeng also said that by the time the outside world saw the open letter, he might have lost his freedom, and he implored the outside world to forward his open letter, “Your forwarding is the biggest help to me.”
According to the “Announcement on Wang Qifeng being recognized as a high-level talent” released by Hangzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau on November 24, 2020, Wang Qifeng works for Taobao (China) Software Co., Ltd. and has been audited and is to be recognized as a high-level E category (annual tax 500 million RMB manufacturing industry or annual tax 500 million national high-tech enterprise talent with a salary income of 500,000 RMB or more in the previous year) Talent.
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