Chinese activist's family 'taken away' over letter calling President Xi to quit
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Re: Chinese activist's family 'taken away' over letter calling President Xi to quit
#2Wasnt China getting better about things like this for a while there? What happened?
Re: Chinese activist's family 'taken away' over letter calling President Xi to quit
#3Didn't some guy go to jail in Canada for sending angry tweets to woman.
Edit: why the downvotes?. This pertains to freedom of speech online in democratic west.
Re: Chinese activist's family 'taken away' over letter calling President Xi to quit
#4Does anyone have a link to the letter itself, preferably in English translation? Making sense of this story depends a lot on the content of that letter and on whether any accusations in it are true.
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Re: Chinese activist's family 'taken away' over letter calling President Xi to quit
#6Didn't some guy go to jail in Canada for sending angry tweets to woman. Edit: why the downvotes?. This pertains to freedom of speech online in democratic west.
It's worse than that. They had an argument, she blocked him then felt harassed when she logged out and searched his tweets.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Elliott
>because Guthrie continued to respond to Elliott's tweets, the judge said Elliott didn't know he was harassing her, even though he knew she had blocked his account.
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/twitter-harassmen...
Re: Chinese activist's family 'taken away' over letter calling President Xi to quit
#7Does anyone have a link to the letter itself, preferably in English translation? Making sense of this story depends a lot on the content of that letter and on whether any accusations in it are true.
Here you go: http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2016/03/open-letter-devoted-par...
It does contain threats to Xi Jinping and his family for his anti-corruption campaign, so that may explain the state's reaction.
> We are worried that this type of inner-Party power struggle may also bring risks to the personal safety of you and your family.
Re: Chinese activist's family 'taken away' over letter calling President Xi to quit
#8> The Chinese government has consistently and strongly denied any complicity in human rights abuses, but says those who break the law must be punished.
The Chinese government wouldn't know what a human rights abuse was if one waterboarded it in the face.
Re: Chinese activist's family 'taken away' over letter calling President Xi to quit
#9Didn't some guy go to jail in Canada for sending angry tweets to woman. Edit: why the downvotes?. This pertains to freedom of speech online in democratic west.
It's worse than that. They had an argument, she blocked him then felt harassed when she logged out and searched his tweets. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Elliott >because Guthrie continued to respond to Elliott's tweets, the judge said Elliott didn't know he was harassing her, even though he knew she had blocked his account. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/twitter-harassmen...
> Elliott is believed to be the first Canadian prosecuted solely for tweets
Oh wow, thats horrific. I am not sure what is worse; being "taken away" for posting a letter to the president in a communist country or actually going to jail in a democracy for sending tweets.
Re: Chinese activist's family 'taken away' over letter calling President Xi to quit
#10There have been disappearance of Hong Kong booksellers by the Chinese government, as reported here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35480229
as well as bookstores in Hong Kong airport being replaced by "Chinese friendly" ones http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/artic...