Beijing stepped up the surveillance of well-known Chinese historian and writer Zhang Yihe recently, as it has on veteran journalist Gao Yu. Speaking to The Epoch Times, Zhang Yihe said she specifically wished to remind people to speak up when their rights are violated.
Eighty-year-old Zhang Yihe described leaving her home recently to get bottled water. “At six in the morning, two plainclothes officers from the National Security Bureau were following me,” she said.
She condemned China’s communist regime for violating her personal rights with unnecessary harassment. “People must speak up,” Ms. Zhang told the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times….