Henan rural bank customers curbed by COVID-19 app as they protest frozen accounts — Radio Free Asia

A man uses his smart phone to register with China's COVID-19 Health Code app, in a file photo. Credit: AFP

Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan have been using the COVID-19 Health Code app to control the movements of protesters over failures at rural banks, according to social media posts. Some 400,000 customers of four rural banks were left unable to withdraw their money after an estimated U.S.$1.5 billion in assets were frozen

Could China’s zero-COVID policy spur a mass protest movement? — Radio Free Asia

University protests, clockwise from top left: Beijing International Studies University, May 8, 2022; Peking University, May 14-15; Beijing Normal University, May 24; and Tianjin University, May 26. RFA collage.

As the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues with large-scale and long-term lockdowns on major cities, mass incarceration in quarantine camps and on university and college campuses, coupled with blanket digital surveillance and control over people’s movements, some signs of mass discontent have begun to emerge. Shanghai entrepreneurs called in a May 30 open letter for the

Escape from Beijing: how a young man fled China's zero-COVID policy

University student He Siyuan, who had to stay at Shanghai's Pudong International Airport for 40 days because of the city's strict COVID-19 lockdown.  He took a PCR test every other day at the airport, and tested negative every time. Credit: Joseph

A Chinese citizen and former resident of Beijing who gave only the nickname Joseph took one look at the newly emerging COVID-19 restrictions in the Chinese capital, and decided he wanted no part of another lockdown like the one still under way in Shanghai. He spoke to RFA’s Mandarin Service about his roller-coaster exit from

China’s anti-trafficking activists face vast network of vested interests — Radio Free Asia

A woman identified as Yang Qingxia is shown sitting with a chain around her neck in a dilapidated hut at a rural property near Xuzhou city in the eastern province of Jiangsu , in a screenshot of a video that went viral on social media. Credit: Video via Douyin

Low success rate In several years of running an anti-trafficking rescue operation to rescue bought brides and other abuse victims, Zhang states her organization has actually just handled to rescue 28 children and ladies.” Investigator Yao Cheng, who works for Womens Rights in China, stated huge numbers of trafficked ladies and girls wind up in

Chinese social media users slam state media for failure to expose sex abuses — Radio Free Asia

Chinese social media users slam state media for failure to expose sex abuses — Radio Free Asia

Some said they were scared to be important, while @qimoshanrenruyushenglizhe commented: “Dont be scared. I am publishing too. If everybody stays quiet, then this country is finished.” ,” the individual said. Social media users have actually been scolding China state-owned media, which is tightly controlled by the judgment Chinese Communist Party (CCP), over their failure

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