Shanghai entrepreneurs demand political reform, release of prisoners of conscience — Radio Free Asia

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A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman in the Huangpu district of Shanghai on June 1, 2022. Credit: AFP

As Shanghai residents celebrated a partial end to a weeks-long, grueling city-wide lockdown, calls emerged on Wednesday for industrial action by businesses in the city to protest Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy. As the Shanghai city government claimed the city’s lockdown had lifted despite multiple barriers to movement around the city, an open letter calling on

Chinese censors delete post hitting out at mass, high-tech pandemic surveillance — Radio Free Asia

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Workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) are seen at an entrance to an alley in a neighborhood under lockdown due to Covid-19 in Beijing, May 24, 2022. Credit: AFP

Chinese censors have deleted a social media post from a university professor who hit out at the blanket surveillance deployed against Chinese citizens as part of the zero-COVID policy. The post from Tsinghua University law professor Lao Dongyan, who has long been a vocal critic of mass surveillance and facial recognition under the ruling Chinese

Chinese leader Xi Jinping seeks support of young people amid lockdown restrictions — Radio Free Asia

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Decorative plates and cups featuring images of Chinese President Xi Jinping are seen in front of a plate featuring late communist leader Mao Zedong (top L) at a souvenir store next to Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Feb. 27, 2018. Credit: AFP

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called on China’s young people to get behind the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a recent visit to a university reminiscent of the Mao era, as “little red books” of his personal brand of ideology made an appearance in Guangxi. In an April 25 speech to staff and students, Xi said

US committee on China calls for probe into VulgarWiki torture allegations — Radio Free Asia

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US committee on China calls for probe into VulgarWiki torture allegations — Radio Free Asia

Politicians in the U.S. are requiring an investigation into claims of abuse versus a man imprisoned after someone posted an image of ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinpings daughter to a site he ran.” Former site administrator Niu Tengyu “was apparently seriously tortured and sentenced to 14 years in jail during a crackdown

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