Category: critics

China Suspends Social Media Accounts of COVID-19 Policy Critics

BEIJING—China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the regime’s policies on the COVID-19 outbreak, as the country moves to roll back harsh anti-virus restrictions. The popular Sina Weibo social media platform said it had addressed 12,854 violations including attacks on experts, scholars, and medical workers and issued…


China Continues to Lock Up Activists in Psychiatric Facilities

Commentary The national mental health law—a reportedly much-heralded law in 2013—was supposed to put an end to a barbaric practice in China: the locking up of critics, petitioners, and the unwanted by police in psychiatric facilities better described as prisons from hell. A new report by NGO Safeguard Defenders shows the problem persists, and there’s…