Wang Jingyu, who has been stranded in Istanbul since leaving China, said he stayed in a hotel and applied for a local phone card, but there have been constant threatening text messages sent to him and people calling the hotel to make personal threats against him.
“I was just particularly surprised that I had a local card and where I was staying, how did they know about it? I just felt unsafe and rushed to the U.S., and that’s how I thought about it.”
On April 5, he purchased a ticket from Istanbul to New York in the United States, but when he was connecting in Dubai, he was inexplicably stopped by two police officers claiming to be from the United Arab Emirates, who took him to immigration and confiscated his passport.
I asked him why he arrested me and at first said it was because of national security (later claiming that Wang had insulted the local religious culture), I joked with him, I said what danger would I pose to your country for being so young? He didn’t say anything, they said nothing, they need to deport me back to China.”
On April 11, Wang was transferred to another larger prison in Dubai, where he tumbled into contact with a lawyer who, after intervening in the case, found it very strange.
The lawyer told me that my case had been closed last week, and that the Dubai Public Prosecutor’s Office had written off the case because it thought I had insufficient evidence. Then the cancellation of why I did not release it, my lawyer is also very strange, he went to find, and then how to find them is not released.”
Wang Jingyu said his lawyer had been granted bail by a judge, but the local police kept him in custody.
He also revealed that while in custody, on April 19, when the court had granted him bail, officials from the Chinese Communist Consulate in Dubai went to see him.
“He said he was someone from the consulate’s leadership group and wouldn’t tell me his name when I asked him. He meant that he wanted me to buy a ticket from Dubai to Guangzhou on May 1, and that they would buy me a ticket if I wanted to. He said I would not have any problems in China either, when he said ‘sign if you are willing’, because I did not sign, his side did not repatriate me, anyway, has been locked me in, I do not know how long to lock up.”
Wang Jingyu said that the documents he was asked to sign were all in Arabic, and he did not know what the content was.
Wang Jingyu’s current situation is not optimistic, initially the police did not give him a little food for two days, only a little water. After he was transferred to a large prison, he was only given one meal a day. Then he was detained with basically all people from India, Pakistan and other places, and there were seven or eight people living in one cell, and fights often occurred. During the epidemic, there were no precautions in the prison, and masks were not allowed to be brought in.
Wang Jingyu, a 19-year-old Chongqing native, created an instant online sensation on the mainland on Feb. 21 when he posted comments about Chinese Communist soldiers who died on the battlefield in India. He was thus convicted for his comments and was wanted by the Chinese Communist Party online, and his parents in China were arrested.
Wang Jingyu said that he has no idea about his parents’ situation, and they have not contacted him for a long time.
He finally hopes to make his appeal through the media.
“It doesn’t matter about my personal safety, even if I am repatriated back and what is done to me, I personally am not afraid because this is an evil party and it will be destroyed eventually. And I want to tell the whole world through this thing of mine that they should unite to defeat …… ,” Wang Jingyu said before he could finish his sentence, the phone was disconnected.
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