In China, where authoritarianism is justified by redefining the term, a woman has reportedly been beaten to death during interrogation after accusing police of murdering her husband
In China, where authoritarianism is justified by redefining the term, a woman has reportedly been beaten to death during interrogation after accusing police of murdering her husband
The reason behind the husband's death is equally uncertain, except to say that he died in prison in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) when serving a sentence for the “crime” of accessing overseas websites, one of six men from the same village to leave this world in similar circumstances.
More stories like this are imminent, as China is cracking down on the use of both foreign and domestic social media by Uyghurs, which may presage yet another wave of repression because it severs their already minimal ability to tell the rest of the world about what is happening in their homeland.
While non-Uyghur citizens are afforded greater internet freedom, they had better be careful how they use it. Authorities are deleting “personas that go against public order and morals,” livestreams where guests inconveniently ask whether Chinese President Xi Jinping might be a dictator and micro-dramas that portray unharmonious families in what is supposed to be the child-raising paradise of the Middle Kingdom.
The communications attack continued more widely as Apple complied with a government request to bolt the door on Chinese citizens by denying them the ability to download apps such as Signal, Telegram, Threads and WhatsApp, which previously could have been accessed through virtual private networks. Separately, it was revealed that almost every single keyboard app for typing Chinese contained a vulnerability enabling keystroke data to be intercepted.
China's treatment of Uyghurs is despicable.
The communications attack continued more widely as Apple complied with a government request to bolt the door on Chinese citizens by denying them the ability to download apps such as Signal, Telegram, Threads and WhatsApp, which previously could have been accessed through virtual private networks.
China has blocked every non-Chinese social app but gets upset when the ban of tiktok is brought up.
If that is how Beijing treats its scientists, its sporting heroes fare little better. Exposed by The New York Times and German television channel ARD, 23 members of the Chinese swimming team for the Tokyo Olympics were revealed to have tested positive for a banned substance prior to the games but were allowed to compete anyway because the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accepted China’s excuse of kitchen contamination without an on-location investigation.
Trying to out do Russian olympic doping...it seems like a competition in it's own right.
Source: Radio Free Asia, aka the CIA, who have obvious material interest in smearing China as much as possible. China may have problems but the bias here is pretty overt.
Yeah, there is bias in the article, but what is being misrepresented?
The sourcing is nebulous by their own admission and the phrasing of the entire article is overtly negative and inflammatory. It could be entirely made up and we have no way to prove it true or false.
I don't believe a single word the CIA says about China and neither should anyone who is interested in the truth.
"the police are murdering citizens and covering up the murders with more murders"
"Is there a nicer, less biased way you could say that so china doesn't feel bad (they are a fragile utopia)"
Their sourcing is, by the article's own admission, nebulous. Don't trust a single word the CIA says about anything related to China.
There is no war in ba sing se…
Yeah, if you believe anything from Radio Free Asia at this point then you’re a moron. It’s literally CIA war propaganda.
Man, they should just move somewhere more free! Like America! Where the police never beat people to death, and the citizens are never abused for political gain by law enforcement!
Oh wait.