Two Chinese human-rights activists were detained as Beijing quietly intensified a crackdown on dissent weeks before the Winter Olympics
since 2013, when he joined in protesting Communist Party efforts to censor Southern Weekly, a Guangzhou newspaper once celebrated by Chinese liberals for its unusually hard-hitting coverage. He spent six years in prison for disrupting public order and “picking quarrels.”
China is enforcing a strict set of Covid-19 rules at the Winter Olympics to stop the fast-spreading Omicron variant. From a"closed-loop” system to a ban on shouting, WSJ explains how some of these restrictions will work, and why despite all efforts, an outbreak could still derail competitions. Photo: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
Mr. Xie, the other activist in custody, was previously detained as part of a sweeping crackdown on human-rights lawyers in 2015. Charged with inciting subversion, he wasMr. Xie’s wife, Chen Guiqiu, confirmed his most recent detention Tuesday. Ms. Chen, who fled China in 2017 and now lives in Texas with the couple’s two daughters, said she suspects the detention is related to her husband’s trip this past Christmas to Yongshun country in southern China’s Hunan province.
Legal scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong, here in 2013, is expected to face trial soon on subversion charges.Inciting subversion is typically punishable by up to five years in prison, and sometimes more in cases deemed severe.
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