White paper revolution
On November 24, 2022, after the fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang, the Chinese people launched a series of protests aimed at opposing the CCP’s zero-clearance policy and demanding freedom of speech. During these movements, people held up white papers to protest against the CCP’s deletion of posts and account bans and the deprivation of people’s freedom of speech. Many people were arrested by the police for holding white papers in protest. The White Paper Movement spread to many cities and universities in China. On the evening of November 26, 2022, Shanghai citizens protested on Urumqi Middle Road in Shanghai, calling for "the CCP to step down, Xi Jinping to step down." On the evening of November 27, 2022, a large number of Beijing citizens spontaneously went to Sitong Bridge to protest, supporting the warrior Peng Zaizhou, and chanted Peng Zaizhou’s slogan: “No nucleic acid, no food, no blockade, freedom, no lies, but dignity; no cultural revolution, reform, no leader.” Vote: Don’t be a slave, be a citizen.” On the same night, people also held spontaneous protests in Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Nanjing, Tianjin and other cities. In addition, students from nearly a hundred universities, including Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, Nanjing University of Communication and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, launched protests. The aftermath of the protests also spread overseas. Chinese people and a large number of international students in dozens of cities around the world also held spontaneous protests in support of the domestic White Paper Movement. Currently, the keyword #白paper has been censored by Sina Weibo.
Beijing Sitong Bridge protest
On October 13, 2022, on the eve of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, protest slogans suddenly appeared on an elevated Sitong Bridge on Beisanhuan West Road, Haidian District, Beijing. Two giant banners with red letters on a white background separated the "Sitong Bridge" "The blue sign hangs and unfolds. A longer and larger banner reads two lines of text: "No nucleic acid, but food, no blockade, freedom, no lies, dignity, no cultural revolution, reform, no leader, votes. Don't be a slave, be a citizen." Another short banner read anti-Xi content - "Go on strike to remove Xi Jinping, the dictatorial thief."
Later, the man holding the banner was arrested by the police. This incident quickly attracted public attention on the Chinese Internet, and the authorities reviewed the videos, pictures, and texts related to this incident. Various platforms have also listed words such as "Sitong Bridge", "bridge", "brave man" and "warrior" as sensitive words. Many netizens have had their accounts permanently deleted for forwarding relevant information.
Other videos and images documenting the scene were circulated.
On Chinese social media, a video purportedly showing a warrior holding a banner shot in a police car after being arrested by the police was also circulated.
According to another circulated video, there are currently many police officers on duty near Sitong Bridge to maintain stability.
The Sitong Bridge protest slogan incident in Beijing attracted widespread attention, and the censorship system responded quickly and blocked relevant content. In a previous article, China Digital Times editors tested and found that the main sensitive words in social networks include "Sitongqiao", "Haidian" and "Warrior". Since then, the scale of review has expanded rapidly, and the matching range of sensitive words has become even more blurred. At present, Weibo has set "Qiao", "Beijing" and "brave" as banned search words. Only blue V, that is, statements from institutions and media accounts are visible, which is extremely sensitive.
Previously, a large number of Weibo users paid tribute to "brave people". Weibo once banned searches for "brave people", but then more severely banned searches for "brave" to cover them.
Looking for Peng Zaizhou
Portrait of Sitong Bridge warrior Peng Zaizhou (real name Peng Lifa)
His original name is Peng Lifa, and Peng Zaizhou is his online name.
On the morning of October 13, 2022, a protester hung two long banners on the bustling Sitong Bridge in Beijing. One read: "No nucleic acid, but food! No blockade, freedom! No lies, dignity! No cultural revolution, reform! No leader, votes! Don't be a slave, be a citizen!" Another read: "Go on strike to remove the dictator Xi Jinping." .
Shortly after the incident, the protester's Twitter account was found. His online name was Peng Zaizhou, and his real name was Peng Lifa. He promoted the action on Twitter. The originally planned action time was October 16, when the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held.
In addition to publishing relevant propaganda on his own Twitter, he also left messages on the Twitter accounts of more than a dozen organizations or individuals, including China Digital Times, before his actions on October 13, hoping that these would be posted on Chinese Twitter Circle influential accounts to pay attention to the upcoming protests.
He left a message below China Digital Times @cdtchinese at 4 a.m. on the 13th:
Dear colleagues, we are about to take action. I hope you can forward it more, thank you!
October 16, 2022 National Mobilization for School Strikes National Mobilization for Strikes National Mobilization for Car Horn Protests National Mobilization for Military Uprising Let the dictator Xi Jinping know that on the road to pursuing freedom, there are men in China
Peng Lifa's action was obviously carefully planned.
He prepared the banners by handwriting them with paint rather than printing them, and he dressed up as a construction worker to hang the banners, minimizing detection by the police during the operation.
He lit objects to cause smoke to attract the attention of pedestrians and passing vehicles, and used a loudspeaker to play the core of his recorded demands against Xi Jinping.'
He did not make any preparations for his escape afterwards, but stayed at the protest site to gain maximum attention for his protest actions in the bustling area of the capital during the day, until the police who arrived quickly put him into a police car.
He also wrote a "Strategy for Strikes and School Strikes to Remove Xi Jinping."
Domestically, people who support Peng Lifa wrote slogans for Sitongqiao in public toilets and other unmonitored places to oppose authoritarianism and zero-clearance policies. There are also some people who spread relevant information and slogans to people around them through the AirDrop function of Apple phones in public places.
Echoes of courage: Two young people in Shanghai unfurl banners saluting Sitong Bridge protest
On the evening of October 23, 2022, two young people in Shanghai (informed sources said they were a man and a woman) held up a banner to pay tribute to the Sitong Bridge protest and marched along the road of Xiangyang North Road with several companions. Accompanying the two of them, filming and videotaping. Their protest attracted onlookers from passers-by.
There are a few simple words written on the white banner: "No, no, no, no, no, no," which is actually the abbreviation of the content of the Sitong Bridge protest in Beijing. If you are familiar with the content of the original banner, you can understand their expression.
If you don’t want nucleic acid, you want food; if you don’t want blockade, you want freedom; if you don’t want lies, you want dignity; if you don’t want the Cultural Revolution, you want reform; if you don’t want a leader, you want votes; if you don’t want a leader, you want votes; if you don’t want a slave, you want a citizen.
Their companions sang "The Internationale" loudly and played the accompaniment of the Internationale as they marched. During the parade, a man who was watching approached and said, "We've always wanted to do this."
It is not seen in the existing video whether the protesters were intervened by the police or whether they finally left the scene safely. On the morning of that day, the new members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee made a collective appearance, and Xi sent people to fully control the core of the CCP's power.
Chinese college students and overseas students launch a poster campaign to support Sitong Bridge warrior Peng Zaizhou
After the Sitongqiao protests in Beijing, Chinese college students and overseas students began to respond to the Sitongqiao incident in the form of posters on the bulletin boards of their schools or where they live. This group of student activists continues to create "echoes."
According to Citizen Daily CN statistics, as of October 23, 2022, students from 328 universities around the world have posted nearly 1,500 posters in support of the Sitong Bridge protests in Beijing (Citizen Daily, 2022). Students in London, Toronto, New York, and Berlin also organized offline gatherings to protest. Students in Xi'an, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and other Chinese cities also held private poster protests.
The outside world regards the poster campaign as a prelude to the "White Paper Movement" after the Urumqi fire.
Urumqi fire
On the evening of November 24, 2022, a fire broke out in a high-rise residential building in Jixiangyuan Community in Tianshan District, Urumqi, Xinjiang, which had been closed for nearly four months. The fire lasted for nearly three hours.
According to the situation report released by the Chinese Communist Party’s official media CCTV, the fire was suspected to have been caused by a fire in a power strip, which ultimately resulted in 10 deaths and 9 injuries.
However, some circulating videos show that after the fire truck arrived at the community, it was trapped by the epidemic prevention and control fence and was unable to enter the scene. It could only spray water on the fire from a distance outside the community, but it was too far away to spray water.
Videos shot by residents of the community showed that the passage door in the building was locked, preventing them from escaping.
After the incident attracted widespread attention, the authorities issued news of the first-instance verdict of actor Wu Yifan. News about the fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang was quickly flooded on Sina Weibo, and topics related to Wu Yifan dominated the hot searches.
The next day, Urumqi citizens took to the streets to demand that the government lift the lockdown. After that, people in Shanghai first took to the streets and gathered on Urumqi Middle Road for mourning activities. Citizen groups in major cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Wuhan also took to the streets to publicly protest. Many people shouted out that Peng Lifa had been in the Fourth Slogans hanging on the bridge.
This fire became the trigger for the White Paper Movement.
Protest in Liangmaqiao, Beijing
On the evening of November 27, some Beijing citizens gathered near Liangma Bridge to express their protest to the Chinese Communist authorities. In a video, citizens chanted the slogan of the Sitong Bridge protest in Beijing: "No nucleic acid, want freedom." These citizens held up white papers while passing vehicles honked their horns in support.
In another video, people gathered shouted: "Shanghai come on, Shanghai releases people," in support of the protests on Urumqi Middle Road in Shanghai.
There are also videos showing that some citizens spontaneously stood up and gave speeches. Among them, a man wearing a black mask said: "I just received news that among our people, there are overseas anti-China forces around us." His words aroused the anger of the gathered crowd. One citizen responded to him: "Are the foreign forces you are talking about Marx and Engels?" Another citizen asked: "Is the fire in Xinjiang started by foreign forces? Excuse me. Were the buses in Guizhou overthrown by foreign forces?" Another citizen said: "We can't even access the Internet from abroad, so where did we get the foreign forces? We only have domestic forces that won't let us gather!"
Subsequently, the police arrived at the Liangma Bridge site and dispersed the protesting crowd.
Afterwards, Beijing authorities carried out mass arrests of people participating in the Liangmaqiao protests.
Protest on Urumqi Middle Road in Shanghai
From the late night of November 26 to the early morning of November 27, 2022, people in Shanghai gathered on Urumqi Middle Road to protest, demanding an end to the "dynamic clearing" policy and the end of the Chinese Communist Party's ruling status.
Some people lit white candles under the "Urumqi Middle Road" road sign to commemorate the victims of the Urumqi fire. Some people shouted "Unblock Xinjiang!" and "The Communist Party steps down! Xi Jinping steps down!".
Some people chanted "No nucleic acid, want freedom" in response to the slogan of the Sitong Bridge protest in Beijing. Some people also shouted slogans such as "Give me freedom or give me death."
Protesters passed and held blank sheets of paper to protest against the blockade of speech.
At around 4 a.m., police surrounded the north and south entrances of Urumqi Road and the west section of Anfu Road, asking people to leave. After the people refused, a stalemate broke out between the police and the people. The police then began to clear the area and arrested many people. Afterwards, some Shanghai citizens gathered in front of the police station, demanding the release of the protesters arrested last night. Some netizens commented: "Yesterday you spoke for me, today we are here to save you!"
Protests in major universities[3]
According to statistics, there have been protests in at least 21 provinces in China.
At the same time, according to statistics from netizens, students from more than 50 colleges and universities in China held protests. During these protests, students held up blank sheets of paper to mock the CCP for "deleting posts, blocking accounts" and depriving people of their freedom of speech. However, what is even more ironic is that many people were arrested by the police for holding white papers in protest.
Nanjing University of Communication
On November 26, 2022, two students from Nanjing University of Communication stood on campus until dark holding white paper in their hands, suspected of expressing dissatisfaction with the authorities' censorship of information related to the Urumqi fire and strict epidemic prevention and control policies.
A large number of students gathered to support the two students. Some videos showed that students lit up the scene with mobile phone lights, sang the national anthem in unison, and shouted: "Long live the people, rest in peace for the dead", and some students gave speeches.
Later, school teachers and leaders rushed to the scene. One teacher educated the students: "You are very interesting. You don't understand many things about the country at all..."
But he was interrupted by students, and a boy outside the screen shouted: "You understand so well, are you the 27 people on the Guizhou bus?"
Cao Guosheng, the school's executive principal, said at the scene: "As long as everyone leaves now, today's incident will not happen, and no one will care about it."
In another video, a school leader directly threatened the gathered students: "You will one day pay for what you have done today!"
In addition to Nanjing University of Communication, students from Chinese universities such as Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan International Studies University, Xi'an International Studies University, Fudan University, etc. are also protesting in various ways.
Students from Nanjing University of Communication produced a song called "If You Don't Want to Walk in Front" in support of the protests. The composer of this song is signed as "Another Blank Paper" and the singer is "Every Blank Paper".
The lyrics are as follows:
If you don't want to go in front, please follow the team
If you don’t want to follow the team, please visit the country on the roadside.
If you don’t want to watch on the roadside, please shout online
If you don’t want to shout online, please close your eyes silently
Sit back and enjoy the rights we fought for you
But don’t turn a blind eye, let alone be sarcastic.
Because the sunshine I fought for belongs to both me and you
Tsinghua University
On November 27, 2022, at the entrance of the Bauhinia Garden Restaurant of Tsinghua University, a female student stood holding a white paper.
Immediately afterwards, other students took out white papers and stood.
Many students gathered together, sang the national anthem, the international anthem, and shouted: "Democracy, legal system, freedom of expression."
In another live video, a female student spoke: "If we are afraid of being arrested, we dare not speak out, I think our people will be disappointed in us, and as a student of Tsinghua University, I will regret it for the rest of my life!"
Another female student shouted loudly: "From today on, no more oral sex for public authority!"
Videos showed that students at Peking University also spontaneously gathered to protest and confronted personnel from the school security office.
Students from Southwest Jiaotong University also gathered to light candles to commemorate the victims of the Urumqi fire, and also shouted demands: "Democracy, the rule of law, and freedom of expression."
Students at Renmin University of China also protested.
China Digital Times has documented student resistance at Nanjing University of Communication, Sichuan International Studies University, and Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts.
In addition to the above-mentioned universities, students from many universities in China have been protesting in various ways.
Wuhan University
On the evening of December 4, 2022, some students from Wuhan University gathered in front of the school administration building to protest, demanding consultations on school closure management, offline teaching and other issues. Some students shouted: "The process should be open and the information transparent."
According to Twitter user @李师NotYour Teacher, the reason for the students’ protest is that other universities in Hubei have successively arranged for students to return home, but there has been no news from Wuhan University. If a student on campus is infected with the new crown, the school is preparing to force Resume offline teaching. At the same time, shops in the school are closed and transportation is inconvenient, which affects the daily life of students. Some students posted distress messages on social platforms such as Weibo, but they were also censored and deleted.
At around 5 p.m. that day, Wuhan University issued an announcement stating that students were allowed to voluntarily return to their hometowns, but at the same time it resumed offline exams and the exam time was to be determined. Students were restricted by their scores and could not really return to their hometowns. So students gathered to protest.
Finally, Wuhan University issued an announcement allowing voluntary return to hometowns and providing online and offline exams and classes, and said it would not hold any students accountable.
Medical schools in various places
On December 10, 2022, a video showed that students from Chongqing Medical University gathered to protest at the gate of the school, demanding that "the students' reasonable demands be taken seriously."
A flyer with "Students' Reasonable Demands" reads:
- Chongqing Medical University ignored the 20 Articles and the New 10 Articles of the Party and the State on epidemic prevention and control, implemented a one-size-fits-all lazy policy, and closed the school for a long time. In the latest document released by Chongqing Medical University on December 9, 2022, the school still ignores students’ demands and continues to strictly manage the gates and does not allow students to enter or exit the school.
- The management policy is unreasonable and does not comply with the requirements of optimizing campus management promulgated by the state. The campus is enfeoffed, and faculty, staff and family members can enter and exit freely. Students with a clinical master's degree can come and go freely, while students doing experiments on campus are not allowed to come in and out. However, the dormitories are not divided into professional residences. Students who are clinical and experimental students live together, and the risk of infection is the same.
- Ignore the mental health of students. Since the beginning of the school year, the school has been under closed management for a long time. It is difficult for students to go out to ask for leave. The school requires that whoever approves is responsible. As a result, teachers are afraid to grant leave. Students cannot go out for a long time and cannot meet normal requirements. Daily needs.
- On-campus life support is insufficient, there is no supermarket, and express delivery is not opened. Express delivery is still not allowed to enter the school normally, causing trouble to students' lives. At the same time, the school's only canteen that can provide daily necessities is driving up prices, and the prices are higher than the world's policy prices. .
After the students protested, the vice president of the school came forward and stated that all students could come and go freely and express delivery would be resumed.
However, the school issued another notice the next day and still implemented the measure of "asking for leave to leave school". Students continue to protest. Subsequently, the president of the school stated that he would not hold the protesting students accountable, but that when they returned home, they would need to communicate with the hospital where the students were working, and held an online meeting to require medical students interns in the hospital to return to work.
On December 12, students from Sichuan North Medical College in Nanchong City, Sichuan also held a spontaneous protest. Undergraduate students demanded voluntary return to their hometowns, while masters with medical professional degrees proposed "equal pay for equal work."
According to reports from students at the school, the school leaders finally signed the relevant documents at the request of the protesting students.
In another video, some professional master's degree students from Nanjing Medical University gathered outside Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital to protest, demanding fair treatment.
However, Nanjing Medical University and Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital did not give in.
At Xuzhou Medical University, some professional master's degree students also gathered to protest, demanding equal pay for equal work. According to students at the school, after the promulgation of the new ten measures, the number of people infected with the new coronavirus has increased exponentially, but the hospital only provides masks to its employees and does not provide masks to graduate students and regular trainees. At the same time, students’ monthly salary is 1,300 yuan. If they are quarantined due to infection, an additional 100 yuan/day will be deducted.
At the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, masters with professional degrees also gathered to protest, demanding equal pay for equal work. During the protest, several teachers restrained a graduate student and snatched his cell phone.
On December 13, a professional master's degree student at the West China Medical School of Sichuan University suddenly suffered a cardiac arrest after working for several days despite having continuous fevers. On Sina Weibo, the topic #华西潇一 Student Died Suddenly on the Job# became a hot search topic.
On December 14, West China Hospital of Sichuan University issued a notice stating that the student did not die suddenly and was still being rescued.
Other schools and districts
2022.10.13 After the Beijing Sitong Bridge protest, Chinese and overseas students expressed support
2022.11.25 People in Urumqi, Xinjiang took to the streets to protest, demanding "unblocking"
2022.11.26 A girl from Nanjing University of Communication stood in protest holding a white paper
2022.11.26 Students from Nanjing University of Communication gathered to support the protesting girls holding white paper, shouting: "Long live the people, rest in peace for the dead"
2022.11.26 Students from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts gathered to protest against the closure of the school
2022.11.26 Students from Sichuan International Studies University sang "The Internationale" in protest
2022.11.26 Peking University students sang "The Internationale" to protest against the blockade
2022.11.26 Guangzhou Sun Yat-sen University students collectively sang "Broader Sea and Sky" to express protest
On the night of November 26, 2022 and in the early morning of November 27, 2022, a public protest on Urumqi Middle Road in Shanghai was violently suppressed by the police.
2022.11.27 A man in Shanghai held flowers and went to Urumqi Middle Road to call on everyone to "be brave". He was then violently arrested by the police.
2022.11.27 A girl held a white paper to protest at the entrance of the Bauhinia Garden Restaurant of Tsinghua University. Later, many Tsinghua students gathered and shouted "Democracy, rule of law, freedom of expression"
2022.11.27 Students from Southwest Jiaotong University gathered to mourn the victims of the Urumqi fire and demanded "democracy, rule of law, and freedom of expression."
2022.11.27 Students of Renmin University of China marched on campus, demanding an end to the lockdown
2022.11.27 Wuhan citizens took to the streets to demonstrate and dismantled isolation fences. The authorities dispatched police to suppress them.
2022.11.27 A girl gave a speech at the Chengdu protest: "Without the support of the people, you are nothing but a hammer."
2022.11.27 Guangzhou citizens gathered to protest at Haizhu Square
2022.11.27 Beijing citizens gathered at Liangma Bridge to protest, holding white papers, and passing cars honked their horns in support
2022.11.27 Beijing citizens support protests on Urumqi Middle Road in Shanghai
2022.11.27 Two protesters in Beijing refuted “there are foreign forces among us”
2022.11.27 People in Kunming and Dali, Yunnan, put white paper on their guitars to parade
2022.11.28 A protester in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, locked his hands with chains, taped his mouth, and held up a white paper to protest
2022.11.28 Hangzhou citizens held chrysanthemums in their hands and were surrounded by police. Citizens gathered in front of a shopping mall to protest and were arrested by the police.
Overseas Chinese and international students protest[4]
Rally in Melbourne, Australia
Inspired by the courage of the people at home, Chinese people around the world have established online democracy walls, shared protest posters in their cities on Instagram accounts such as Citizens Daily CN, and organized and called for demonstrations. Progressive groups of overseas students and pan-democrats organized solidarity rallies in the city centers of major cities around the world, outside Chinese embassies and consulates, and in universities, spreading the influence of the "White Paper Movement" to the world. Rarely large rallies have broken out in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles in the United States, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal in Canada, Berlin in Germany, London, Glasgow in the United Kingdom, Tokyo in Japan, and Taiwan. It is reported that Chinese people in at least 16 countries have organized commemorations and demonstrations, and "demanded that the Chinese Communist Party" step down in multiple activities.
Most of the participants in these rallies are young international students and Chinese immigrants who grew up in mainland China. They have greatly expanded and enriched the demands of the White Paper Movement. In addition to the resignation of Xi Jinping, the resignation of the Communist Party, democracy and freedom, police release and mourning for the victims of the Urumqi fire, overseas progressive communities also called for international connections with Iranians and Ukrainians. Their attention to marginalized groups has led to more voices on Uighurs, Tibetans, Taiwan, Hong Kong, LGBTQ, women's rights, and labor issues appearing in the demonstrations.
This rare political protest movement, the largest since June 4th, attracted the attention of Xi Jinping, the top leader of the Communist Party of China. According to reports, Xi Jinping said during his meeting with European Council President Charles Michel that he believed that the recent demonstrations in China stemmed from people's frustration during the three-year fight against the epidemic, and that the main body of the demonstrations were young school students. As for its own people, the Chinese government has never responded positively to protests. On the one hand, the authorities secretly tracked down and arrested young people who participated in the White Paper Movement. On the one hand, it quickly canceled the zero-clearance policy to relieve its governance crisis.
2022.11.27 People in Taipei, Taiwan gathered at Freedom Square to support mainland students
2022.11.27 Chinese students and overseas Chinese in London, UK protested in support of China outside the Chinese Embassy
2022.11.27 Chinese students in Glasgow, Scotland gather to mourn the victims of Urumqi
2022.11.27 Chinese students and overseas Chinese gathered in Paris, France to support China’s protests
2022.11.28 Students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong held up white paper in support of the protest
2022.11.28 Citizens in Central, Hong Kong held white papers to mourn the victims of the Urumqi fire. Hong Kong police arrived at the scene to register participant information.
2022.11.28 Protesters in Toronto, Canada shouted "Chinese people resist" outside the Chinese Consulate.
2022.11.28 Chinese students and overseas Chinese in Sydney, Australia, support the Urumqi Middle Road protest
2022.11.29 Protesters gathered outside the Chinese Consulate General in New York, USA to support China’s protest
2022.11.29 Chinese students at Columbia University in the United States protested and shouted "Step down from the Communist Party"
2022.11.29 Chinese students from Columbia University gave a speech: "We are the orphans in the square"
2022.11.29 Student at University of California, Berkeley: “We are all foreign forces”
2022.11.29 Chinese students at Harvard University in the United States protest: "No more censorship"
2022.11.29 Chinese students at Cambridge University in the UK gathered to protest, shouting "Xi Jinping steps down"
2022.11.30 Chinese students and overseas Chinese gathered in Seoul, South Korea to support Chinese protesters
2022.11.30 Chinese students in Tokyo, Japan and overseas Chinese support China’s protests
Those white-paper young people in jail
Li Mengkang
Li Kangmeng held a white paper to protest at Nanjing University of Communication
Portraits made by netizens for her
A student at Nanjing University of Communication, on the evening of November 26, when participating in the "White Paper Revolution" event, she wore a cap and raised a piece of white paper with both hands in protest. Afterwards, someone snatched the white paper away from her hand, but she still maintained her original posture. He was arrested by the police at 2 p.m. on November 30, and there has been no news since. Public opinion has paid a lot of attention to Li Kangmeng. Someone once posted a notice looking for her in WeChat Moments, but to no avail. Li Kangmeng has relatively little personal information. Her specific age and major cannot be found on the Internet. We only know that she is a student at Nanjing University of Communication. The relevant information needs to be further explored.
Bauhinia Yang
His online name is "Dianxin". He was born on July 1, 1997. He is originally from Shanxi and graduated from Harbin Engineering University. Hobby writing poetry and articles. At around 9 pm on November 27, 2022, Yang Zijin and her friends went out and arrived at Haizhu Square at 10:30. They watched the "white paper protest" in the crowd. He left the scene around 1 a.m. without any radical behavior in the process. It is reported that Yang Bauhinia has never held up an A4 paper. She is just a charity youth who cares about marginalized groups. She just went to see it with her friends that day. Because she was not a student, she did not make any remarks in Haizhu Square. On the evening of December 4, 2022, a male plainclothes policeman asked Yang Zijin to open the door on the pretext of "checking the water meter." Then more than a dozen police officers broke into her home and refused to produce a search warrant. On the evening of December 7, the Beijing Road Police Station stated that Yang Zijin had been detained under criminal detention, but refused to provide the detention notice to her family members on the grounds that the police handling the case were not available. The notice was issued the next day. On January 3, Yang Zijin was released on bail from the Beijing Road Police Station in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, pending trial, and some of her freedom of movement will be restricted.
Guo Yi
Guo Yi
Her online name is Edith, female, a 2015 student at the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. She was the liberal arts champion in Xinjiang at that time. She has a wide range of hobbies and has participated in the ballroom dance team and other clubs. After graduating in 2020, he actively participated in feminist and other social activities in Beijing. Guo Yi is the screenwriter of "The Way of the Vagina".
Sitong Bridge Warrior Peng Zaizhou (real name Peng Lifa) On October 13, 2022, when the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was about to be held, he bravely hung two red banners on the Sitong Bridge in Zhongguancun, Beijing, one of which read "No nucleic acids Want to eat! Not blockade but freedom! Not lies but dignity! Not the Cultural Revolution but reform! Not leaders but votes! Don’t be slaves but be citizens!”
After the Sitong Bridge incident, Guo Yi (Edith) was arrested around October 20, 2022 when she took a poster she made of Peng Lifa, the Sitong Bridge warrior, to a Beijing toilet to put it up. Subsequently, the Sitong Bridge posters in his home were also found. Currently, she has been released on bail pending trial after being detained for more than 100 days.
reward
Male, born on January 15, 1994, now 29 years old. He studied documentary photography at the University of Westminster in the UK and worked in the film industry after returning to China.
At the end of November 2022, he participated in the Liangmaqiao protest in Beijing. That night, Xin Shang read a short section of Shakespeare's famous sonnet in front of the police under the Liangma Bridge.
Later, he was summoned by the police many times and was finally arrested on January 7, 2023. Xin Shang's parents have received a detention notice. The charge on the detention notice is "crime of endangering public safety" and they are still in custody.
Li Siqi
Female, born in the 1990s, independent journalist, freelance media person, Internet activist, participant in the Beijing White Paper Movement, political prisoner in custody in China.
Since Li Siqi returned from studying in the UK, she has gradually become a young and promising reporter and freelance media person in Beijing. Because she has many foreign media friends in her daily social circle, she often lists these foreign media friends in the Telegram groups she joins. People joined the group to chat; however, because the Telegram group had long been decrypted by the Chinese Communist Party police, the chat records of other group members were controlled by the police, but other groups were not aware of it.
On November 24, 2022, a fire broke out in a building in Urumqi, Xinjiang. However, the government's excessive epidemic prevention measures at the time resulted in the failure to extinguish and rescue the fire in time, which ultimately killed dozens of people. Once the news came out, Chinese groups around the world, In particular, overseas student groups and people across mainland China have held mourning and protests for the victims.
On November 27, he and many of his group friends saw information on the Internet that there would be an event to commemorate the compatriots who died in Xinjiang in Liangma River, Chaoyang District, Beijing that night, so they contacted several friends in the Telegram group, including Cao Zhixin and Li Yuanjing. They brought candles, flowers, notes and white paper with poems written on them, and went to the Liangma River Bridge to participate in the memorial service. Two days later, more than a dozen young people were taken away by the local police station and summoned; Later, because they did not act unusually during the memorial service, they were all released without charge one day later.
However, on December 18, 2022, Li Siqi was secretly taken away and detained by the Chaoyang District police in Beijing on suspicion of "gathering a crowd to disrupt social order." Eight other people were also charged with the same crime by the Chaoyang District police within a few days during the same period. Xingju, and have lost contact with all of them since then.
On January 20, 2023, it was learned that a total of nine people, including Cao Zhixin and Li Yuanjing, who were also white paper protesters, were formally arrested by the Beijing Chaoyang District Procuratorate on suspicion of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble."
It is reported that his second arrest was mainly related to his participation in the Liangmaqiao White Paper Protest Movement and his frequent inclusion of foreign media persons in the Telegram group to share information and ideas at home and abroad. He is currently being detained at the Chaoyang District Detention Center in Beijing.
Li Yuanjing
Li Yuanjing
Female, born in the 1990s, unknown place of origin, accountant at the Beijing office of PricewaterhouseCoopers (Pwc) accounting firm, graduate of UNSW. Internet activist, Telegram group leader, participant in the White Paper Movement in Beijing, political prisoner in custody in China.
On November 27, 2022, she and several Telegram group friends, as well as several friends such as Cao Zhixin and Zhai Dengrui, participated in the memorial service at Liangmaqiao in Beijing.
On November 29, 2022, she and dozens of other white-paper youths were taken away and summoned by the local police station. Later, because they did not act unusually during the memorial service, they were released without charge by the police one day later.
On December 18, 2022, she was secretly detained by the Chaoyang District Police in Beijing on suspicion of "gathering a crowd to disrupt social order." Eight other people were also charged twice with the same crime by the Chaoyang District Police on the same day and in the following days. Xingju, and have lost contact with all of them since then.
On January 20, 2023, it was learned that she and a total of 9 people including Li Siqi, Cao Zhixin, and Zhai Dengrui, who were also white paper protesters, were formally arrested by the Beijing Chaoyang District Procuratorate on suspicion of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." He is currently being detained at the Chaoyang District Detention Center in Beijing.
Zhai Dengrui
Zhai Dengrui
Female, whose WeChat name is Aladen, is from Baiyin, Gansu Province. She is an organizer of women's rights activities. She has a bachelor's degree in social work and a master's degree in English and American literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University. I once worked at Xueersi. When the epidemic first broke out, I organized a reading of Ferrante's famous novel "My Genius Girlfriend". I once organized a women's rights group, but it was recently disbanded by the Chinese Communist authorities.
On December 22, 2022, Zhai Dengrui was arrested by the Beijing police. It is reported that she may have been arrested on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
Zhai Dengrui is rational and gentle in life. Her courage is touching. She is not too tall and has a gentle temper. She is concerned about gender rights, loves drama and education, is cute and enthusiastic, and often goes to nursing homes and charity organizations to do volunteer work. Before she was arrested, she was also helping children with English speech training.
Zhai Dengrui's mother is a front-line anti-epidemic doctor. She never thought that her kind and enthusiastic only daughter would lose her freedom and was not released during the Spring Festival. My grandma is 86 years old and has been sick all year round. She misses her granddaughter very much.
Li Chaoran
Li Chaoran
Her online name is Cathy, female, born in 1995. She received a bachelor's degree from Beijing Normal University and a master's degree from Renmin University of China. After graduation, she worked in a financial institution in Beijing. She is a senior lover of musicals, loves birds, animals and starry sky photography. In addition to her hobbies in life, she works endless overtime.
She did not participate in the "Liangma Bridge" protest in Beijing on the evening of November 27, 2022. She was "lost contact" just because she sponsored a young man with a blank slate. After Lin Qian, a participant in the White Paper Movement, was arrested, Beijing Pinggu Police Station asked someone to release Lin Qian on bail because she was infected with the new coronavirus. Although Li Chaoran only met Lin Qian 2 or 3 times, out of sympathy and love, he went to Pinggu Police Station to guarantee Lin Qian's release and took her into his home until Lin Qian was taken away by the police for the second time.
Li Chaoran lost contact on January 6, 2023, and there is no news yet. He may also be arrested by the procuratorate.
Cao Zhixin
Female, Hunanese, born in 1996, graduate of the History Department of Renmin University of China, editor of Peking University Press, protester of the White Paper Movement in Beijing, political prisoner in custody in China.
On November 27, 2022, Cao Zhixin and her friends joined the crowd of mourners on the Liangma River Bridge that night; however, due to the CCP authorities’ response to the mourning activities in various places and the resulting white paper protests, they have taken severe crackdowns and persecution On November 29, he and his friends were summoned and taken away by the local police station. Because the police believed that they had not done anything extraordinary, they were released without charge after being summoned for transcripts and criticized and educated for 24 hours.
However, on December 18, 2022, the police secretly detained four of Cao Zhixin's friends without warning. When they signed the arrest warrant, they found that the crime column was blank, and the police also refused to disclose the information of all the arrested parties. He was deeply disturbed by the charges, place and time of detention, so he made a short video in preparation for his accident and commissioned a friend to post it online to solicit more attention and support from all walks of life and international organizations; after that, Cao Zhixin also He was about to be secretly arrested and detained by the police in Chaoyang District, Beijing. The charges are unclear at the moment. Cao Zhixin is currently detained at the Chaoyang District Detention Center in Beijing.
Huang Hao
Born in the 1980s, a resident of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, a trainee lawyer, a participant in the “White Paper Protest Movement”, a participant in the Chengdu White Paper Movement, and the husband of arrested protester Fat Hu.
Since graduating from college, he has always been a cute boy with a certain artistic flair in the eyes of his friends. Later, he met the beautiful and kind-hearted tattoo artist Pang Hu (online name). Because of their similar values, the two finally got married. A good marriage; before being arrested, he told his friends that he had passed the professional bar association interview and became a trainee lawyer. Therefore, he felt happy and had good vision for the future, and received warm congratulations from his friends; however, what happened next The incident changed his normal life order.
On November 24, 2022, a fire broke out in Urumqi, Xinjiang during the forced lockdown of the epidemic. In the end, at least 10 people were killed due to the failure of rescue in time and in place; in order to commemorate the innocent people who were burned to death in the fire, people all over the country (especially First-tier cities such as Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu, Beijing, and Xi'an) have launched "white paper protest movements" (that is, holding up white paper to protest, asking the government to "no nucleic acid, but freedom", "give me freedom or give me death", "give me survival"). ” and other requirements).
On November 27, Chengdu citizens also responded to the "white paper protest movement" and gathered on Wangping Street to mourn the victims of the Urumqi fire. He and his recently married wife Fat Hu also gathered to participate; however, This move was immediately severely punished by the Chengdu authorities.
The next day, the couple were taken away from their home by the Chengdu police and later detained on suspicion of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." They have lost contact since then. Later, his wife's mother came from her hometown in Jiangsu Province to inquire about their arrest. After many inquiries about the reason and where they were detained, it was finally learned that their daughter Fat Hu was detained in Shuangliu Detention Center in Chengdu City, but where she was detained has remained unknown. Lawyers have now intervened in the case of the two, but the authorities refused to allow their families to He met with his lawyer and his wife separately; so far, the specific circumstances of his adjournment are not known. The current place of detention is unknown.
fat tiger
Female, born in the 1980s, from Jiangsu Province, now lives in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Her real name is unknown, her online name is "Fat Tiger", she is a professional tattoo artist and a participant in the "White Paper Protest Movement". Although Fat Hu was born in the south of the Yangtze River, he has a Sichuan and Chongqing soul, so he said that he is willing to live in Chengdu and be "a tattoo artist without tattoos". At the same time, he is praised by friends (including netizens) for his exquisite skills.
On November 27, 2022, Fat Hu and her newlywed husband Huang Hao participated in the white paper protest together. The next day, the couple were taken away from their home by Chengdu police and later detained on suspicion of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." They have lost contact since then. Later, his mother came from her hometown in Jiangsu Province to inquire about the real reason for her arrest and where she was being held. After many inquiries, she finally learned that she was being held in Shuangliu Detention Center in Chengdu City, but the place where her husband Huang Hao was held was unknown.
Although lawyers have intervened, the authorities have refused to allow their families and attorneys to meet with them; so far, their subsequent detention circumstances are still unclear. Fat Hu is currently detained in Chengdu Shuangliu Detention Center.
Li Yi
Li Yi, a protester of the White Paper Movement, was arrested for watching the White Paper protests in Shanghai and was criminally detained by the Shanghai police on November 29, 2022 on charges of provoking quarrels and provoking trouble. He is currently detained at the Xuhui District Detention Center in Shanghai.
willow
Beijing News reporter, the approximate time she lost contact was December 20 or 21, 2022.
Lin Yun
Lin Yun is Yang Liu's boyfriend. It is reported that he has been released on bail, but the specific situation is still unclear.
Chen Junhui
The last contact with the artist was on the morning of December 28, 2022, and he began to lose contact in the afternoon of that day. He had been to Chengdu before and returned to Beijing on the 28th. He may have been arrested upon returning to Beijing.
Wang Xiaoyu
A native of Guangzhou, on the evening of November 27th, he watched the "White Paper Protest" activity at Haizhu Square in Guangzhou. As a result, he was arrested by the Yuexiu District Branch of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau on December 4th. He was suspected of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" and is currently detained in At the Yuexiu District Detention Center in Guangzhou City, the authorities refused to allow family members and lawyers to meet with him. It was learned on January 3, 2023 that he was released on bail.
Shire
24 years old, Uyghur. On the evening of November 27, 2022, he participated in an event to commemorate the victims of the Urumqi fire on Wangping Street in Chengdu. Xiaer was detained by the police on suspicion of gathering a crowd to disrupt social order. After his parents rushed to Chengdu, he was released on bail pending trial. formalities. It is reported that Charles' father is an old teacher who is in poor health and his salary is very low after retiring due to illness. His mother has no income and his younger sister is in high school. The father, who could not speak fluent Chinese, finally arrived in Chengdu smoothly and traveled between several detention centers in Chengdu. After a few days, it was determined that Charles was being held in the Pidu District Detention Center. It is reported that at the end of 2022, he was released on bail and returned to Xinjiang,
Qin Chao
A native of Lu'an, Anhui Province, he was taken away by the police on Urumqi Road in Shanghai around 10pm on November 27.
Jing Xueqin
He disappeared because he participated in the Wuhan demonstration and was taken away by unknown police at 11:30 pm on November 28.
Chen Jialin
A woman who continuously participated in memorial services on Urumqi Middle Road in Shanghai was arrested by the police while being interviewed by the media.
Arrestees who have not yet been identified
Cao Yuan: Arrested across provinces by Beijing police in Shanghai Sister Wang: DJ/working in civil aviation, now lost contact Ni Ni: Fashion editor Al: Product operation, Ni Ni’s roommate, both were taken away from home at the same time Liu Yang: In Taobao/Alibaba printed T-shirts with a pattern of a girl from Nanjing University of Communication holding a white paper. On the day the T-shirt was delivered, it was taken away by the police. Li Feifei: new media operation Bai Er: artist, owner of Wigwam bar Kong Che: DJ, artist, teacher Shake: DJ, artist Missing and arrested persons: Xiaomei, XFZ, Xiaoshan
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According to a report by the Tibet News Agency, on December 2, about four Tibetans working in Kangding, Chengdu, China, were reported to have lost contact after participating in activities in response to the local "White Paper Revolution". They are 26-year-old Zanga, 28-year-old Kelsang Dolma, Deqing and Dela. They were all arrested on December 5.
Other news pointed out that a 23-year-old female student from Lhasa named Caiyang Lhamo of Nanjing Communication University was also arrested for participating in the local "white paper revolution" on November 26. Caiyang Lhamo comes from Jiarong Community in Lhasa City. He previously studied at Tibet University for Nationalities and will enroll in Nanjing University of Communication in 2022. That night, students from Nanjing University of Communication held a protest to protest against the Chinese government’s zero-clearance policy. It is reported that about 60 students were arrested. According to information from the Minsheng Observation Network, protesters arrested during the "White Paper Revolution" also included Jin Jiawei, Lin Daoyun, Chuanchuan, Wang Chenhao, Li Mu, Wang Daiyue, Wang Hao, Zhang Donghui, Wei Hai and many unknown young people. . After being detained, they were all mistreated to varying degrees and in different ways.
On the evening of November 29, a student at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University held up a piece of white paper and was taken away by school leaders and security guards who arrived. After four students who participated in the memorial service in Ningbo, Zhejiang were taken away, one student has returned and the condition of the remaining three is unknown.
The latest news about the young people arrested during the white paper protest in Liangmaqiao, Beijing is that more than ten people, including Yang Liu, Qin Ziyi, Lin Qian, and Lin Yun, have been released on bail pending trial. Nine people, including Li Yuanjing, Li Siqi, Cao Zhixin, and Zhai Dengrui, were approved by the procuratorate to be arrested. The charges for their arrests have changed from "gathering a crowd to disrupt social order" when they were initially detained to "picking quarrels and provoking trouble."