In an escalating campaign to crack down on freedom of speech, China’s communist authorities have arrested and charged eleven Chinese citizens for allegedly providing The Epoch Times with information documenting draconian virus lockdown measures.  The eleven citizens were charged and face up to life in prison if convicted, according to the Chinese Communist Party’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate. The Epoch Times editorial board condemns this suppression of a free press and basic human rights in the strongest terms possible, and calls on Beijing to immediately release the 11 Chinese citizens.  These latest arrests were condemned by the U.S. State Department, which is urging Beijing to “cease its efforts to silence those who seek to report the truth.” The Committee to Protect Journalists also condemned the arrests, urging communist authorities to immediately release and drop charges against the 11 Chinese citizens. For over twenty years, Chinese citizens have seen The Epoch Times …