The “Iron Chain Woman” human trafficking scandal in Xuzhou City of China’s Fengxian County, Jiangsu Province, has been receiving unabated attention on China’s intranet-like Internet. Lao Dongyan, a professor of law at Tsinghua University, was silenced after posting a comment about this scandal. Lao had been following the”Iron Chain Woman” scandal since Jan. 31 and was reposting related articles on WeChat every day. In one of the WeChat posts, she wrote, “The Fengxian scandal will definitely be recorded in history, and we are witnessing history and participating in it. Although I don’t have much expectation for the result, I am glad that we did not give up.” Later, Lao’s WeChat was banned and all the teachers of Tsinghua University also received a notice demanding that they keep silent on the case. According to a whistleblower teacher, the administration of Tsinghua University posted in the teachers’ WeChat group on Feb. 21 a …