Wang Jingyu, a young man from Chongqing who was convicted of speaking out, has been threatened by authorities with a deadline to turn himself in after making online comments critical of the Chinese Communist Party’s military during an overseas trip. On Thursday, Wang’s friends tweeted that Wang, who was arrested by local police during a stopover in Dubai on his way to the United States, is now facing the threat of deportation.
Wang’s friend tweeted on his Twitter account on the afternoon of May 20 that “Wang Jingyu, 19, from Chongqing, was arrested by Dubai police during a stopover at Dubai International Airport on his way to the U.S. and is now facing deportation to China.”
In the tweet, his friend called for international attention to Wang’s arrest.
The news of Wang’s arrest overseas sparked concern among activists concerned about the human rights situation in China and prompted a quick response.
The U.S. government has begun to intervene in the case, said the Rev.
In the tweet, Fu Xiqiu said, “Don’t worry, the U.S. government has already started to act to intervene after an emergency communication with the White House and State Department this afternoon!”
Guo Baosheng, a Chinese dissident in the United States, tweeted that Chinese dissident Wang Jingyu, who was arrested at the Dubai airport, is about to be deported. He said, “The CCP wants Wang because he criticized the war between India and China on Chinese Weibo, even though he posted from Europe.”
In another tweet, Guo Baosheng said he spoke with Wang Jingyu, who is being held in a Dubai detention center, and said he was in a very bad situation. He wrote, “The Chinese Communist Party is forcing the Dubai government to deport him to China.
Wang Jingyu, 19, left his hometown of Chongqing in July 2019 and is currently traveling in Europe. This week, he was reported by netizens for posting comments on Weibo that questioned and criticized PLA officers and soldiers killed in the Sino-Indian border conflict.
An announcement from Chongqing’s Shapingba police said that “the suspect Wang was criminally detained on suspicion of provocation and fleeing online.” For several days, he came under heavy fire from netizens for denigrating the PLA as a “traitor” and “traitor. His and his family’s personal information – name, date of birth, home address, parents’ workplace, cell phone number, etc. – was also fiercely “fleshed out”.
Since Wang was not in China, his parents were interrogated by the authorities and taken to the local police station for questioning, and their home was even raided.
Wang was arrested by local police on April 6 while transiting Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates on his way to the United States.
After Wang’s arrest, Guo Baosheng posted a Youtube video of a phone call he made with Wang in prison in Dubai. According to Kwok, Wang was arrested by local police on April 6 on suspicion of insulting the local religion while he was on a Turkish Airlines flight in transit to Dubai airport in the United Arab Emirates. Guo Baosheng said Wang’s local lawyer later discovered that the case was actually being manipulated by the Chinese Embassy to extradite him to China.
In a previous interview with the Voice of America, Teng Biao, a former Chinese human rights lawyer and legal scholar now living in the United States who has followed Wang’s case, said he had only heard of cross-border law enforcement such as “Operation Fox Hunt” to track down alleged embezzlers overseas, but it was unheard of for him to be “chased online” because of his comments. But it is still unheard of to be “chased online” because of one’s comments.
Teng Biao said there is no doubt that China’s control over online speech has become stricter, with the threshold for arrests and convictions greatly lowered, and there are more and more cases of people who have spoken out overseas and have been detained or had their families at home implicated after returning to China.
Human Rights Watch’s 2021 World Human Rights Report, released in January, criticized Chinese authorities for increasingly targeting the families of human rights defenders while continuing to crack down on the community of human rights defenders.
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