Beast Press: Lu Yuyu, who has been known to start a "non-news" website many years ago, also greatly appreciates his work, but it was not until December 1 that he passed this " Minutes of China's Speech Censorship in November 2020: No Regime Can Violence has been passed down for a long time | CDT Archives , especially this report by Cao Yaxue, only to know what happened to Lu Yuning in recent years.

The voice of the rebels: "I didn't give in because I knew the cost of giving in"

On June 15, 2020, after four years in prison, Lu Yuyu was released on the first day after his 43rd birthday. After his release from prison, he found that the space for dissidents at home had almost disappeared. On June 15, 2016, he and his girlfriend Li Tingyu were arrested in Dali for "non-news" blogging. "Non-News" is a channel started by Lu Yuyu in 2012, which collects and publishes mass protests in China. After being released from prison, Lu Yuyu did not choose to give in. He began to write his story "Irregular Experience" on Twitter, and accepted foreign media:

"I'm not a hero, and I'm not the part of the people who stayed to fight. I did 'non-journalism' because I liked it. I didn't leave [China] because I was born at the bottom of society and had no chance. I didn't give in. It's because I know the price of surrendering. I want to be a dignified person." Cao Yaxue｜Recording mass protests: an unusual story of two ordinary Chinese

The Beast was permanently banned for recommending Yu Jie's book "Trump to the Right, Xi Jinping to the Left " in the WeChat Moments on December 5, and was interviewed and reprimanded by the National Security Bureau of Beijing Dongcheng Branch on December 9 . This interview experience also made me and Lu Yuning have more empathy.

The Beast has lived in mainland China for 41 years and Beijing for 17 years, and this is the first time he has been interviewed. And it's still December 9, 2020, the 85th anniversary of the December 9th Movement! For so many years, I have watched other people get convicted because of their words, and I am trying to pay attention to these people and try to tell more people what happened to these thought criminals. Finally one day, it was my turn to be convicted of words.

In fact, I still made some disguise when sharing in the circle of friends, but I still couldn't escape the report of someone in the circle of friends. The state security told me that they accepted it because someone reported it to them. The reason for the report is that I admire Trump for attacking Chinese national leaders, and I also suspect that I am a cents party. I just don’t know that on December 5th, Tencent has permanently blocked my personal WeChat. As I said on December 5th, it’s not a blessing to know that the horse has been lost . There are a lot of matters articles in the circle, maybe I really have to be convicted and imprisoned for the introduction.

The following is the sharing of this circle of friends:

In October 2020, yujie published the book "Chuan You, Xi Zuo" in Taiwan. He said: "Trump on the right and Xi on the left are opposites, but because the earth is round, they will eventually face off!"

This book is divided into two volumes, the first volume introduces Trump’s fifteen books, first of which are five of Trump’s famous best-selling books, which allow readers to re-understand him from the concept of governance, the study of success and Trump’s financial treasures, “Written by Trump His works on success and financial management are completely different from the thick black studies and vertical and horizontal techniques in the Chinese-speaking world. It is a vivid presentation of the free market economic theory of Mises and Hayek in the United States.” Then introduce the masterpiece of contemporary American conservatism. , Russell Kirk's The Roots of the American Order, Alan Bloom's The Closure of the American Spirit, William Frank Buckley Jr.'s God and Man at Yale, Nozick's Anarchy, State, Utopia"; finally, introduce several classics that can help readers understand Trump's domestic and foreign policies.

Cao Yaxue | Documenting Mass Protests: An Unusual Story of Two Ordinary Chinese

November 11, 2020

1 arrested

Dali Ancient Town is a small town in southwest China with a history of more than 600 years. For tourists from the mainland, the most eye-catching may be the sapphire blue sky and the houses with blue tiles and white walls and carved beams and painted buildings on the Yunnan Plateau. Because the four seasons are like spring, the streets are full of flowers and plants, and the walls are covered with vines. Standing on the street, you can see the green mountains surrounded by clouds and mists. Whether geographically or aesthetically, Dali is like a paradise. Indeed, in the 1990s and the first decade of this century, many poets, writers, artists, and musicians from all over China came to settle here, as well as those who, for one reason or another, wished to stay away from the noise and harassment.

At noon on June 15, 2016, Lu Yuyu and Li Tingyu were eating rice noodles in a shop. Lu Yuyu bought a rectangular pot on Taobao, and planned to grow catnip for the cats at home, and also attract other cats to come and play at home. During the meal, the owner of Taobao station sent several text messages to Li Tingyu (they did not leave their addresses when shopping online), urging her to pick up the goods. The frequent calls were a little unusual, but they didn't think much of it.

"After we finished eating rice noodles, we rode an electric car back to the city. It was not far from the ancient city, about Qili Road. When we arrived at the express station, Jian Jin went to Taobao station to pick up the express. From Taobao station to the roadside, there was an aisle about 10 meters long. I was waiting for her on the road outside the aisle. Several men gathered around, and I had imagined countless times before this day and how I would deal with it. But it all happened too quickly, too late to react, too late to fear, and I was He twisted his hands and drove into a black car next to him, and was put on a black hood. I think they didn't know that Jane was in Taobao Station - this is too naive. Jane was detained by several female police officers. I stood out from Taobao, shouted my name, and was taken to another car. I started to feel uncomfortable." (Lu Yuyu , "Incorrect Memories" )

They are a couple of lovers. Their "non-news" blog dedicated to documenting mass protests in China between 2012 and 2016.

The police ordered Lu Yuyu to lead the way to where they lived. He resisted inwardly, but knew it was useless. Plus the cat is still at home. When they arrived at their residence, about a kilometer away, there were already many plainclothes waiting at the door. When he got out of the car, he saw that the car holding Li Tingyu had stopped, and she was in the car with a black hood on her head. This was the last time he saw her.

2 before 'non-news'

Lu Yuyu was born in 1977 in a village outside Zunyi, Guizhou. His father is a retired soldier of the People's Liberation Army. In the early days of the reform and opening up in the 1980s, he ran a seedling farm in Zunyi, while his mother was a self-employed person. My parents were the forerunners of that era, the first families in the city to get rich and the first to own TV sets. His father was elected as one of the 100 advanced self-employed individuals in the country, and his mother served as a national March 8 red-banner.

Perhaps because of their busy schedule, their parents sent all three of their children to school. The youngest, Lu Yuyu, has been living in relatives and teachers' homes since he was nine years old. He only goes home once on weekends. He changed a lot of schools and, in his own words, was bullied a lot. When he was in middle school, he went to a key middle school in the county seat. As a teenager, he liked to listen to rock music and liked the guitar. In the small county town of Guizhou, this is a hobby that few people share. Also joined the boys' gang, often fighting. Every time I see my father, the latter will teach him to "study hard" and not allow him to have other hobbies. He is bored.

In 1989, a cousin who had participated in June 4th told him about the student protests and sit-ins that year. He also witnessed students from a local Chinese medicine school blocking the road to protest. That's when he started listening to Voice of America and Radio Free Asia's Chinese programs on shortwave radio.

In 1995, Lu Yuyu was admitted to Guizhou University of Finance and Economics to study political economy. He didn't like it at all. He wants to form a band with friends, and plans to transfer to art school to study music. But in the second year of college, he and a few friends got involved in a group fight and injured people. He was thus sentenced to six years in Zunyi from 1996 to 2002.

Six years is a long time. But he said that the prison management at that time was different from now. With the intercession of his family, he could read books, play guitar, and watch TV and watch football games. But during this period, his family changed. In 2000, his mother passed away. His mother was his closest relative, and his father did not notify him until a few days after the funeral was dealt with at the prison.

After being released from prison, he moved out of his home and worked in a small advertising shop, making signs and slogans for clients. That was the era of the rise of the Internet in China. Like many young people living in remote and small living spaces, he found freedom on the Internet. For the first few years online, he was mainly looking for and listening to music. I started to listen to the mainstream, from Zhang Chu, Dou Wei, He Yong in China, to Guns N' Roses, Kurt Cobain in foreign countries. His taste later turned to Goths and Darkwave.

"I was obsessed with this at the time," he said. While working part-time, he started a blog, collected his favorite music and bands, and accessed online music forums. At that time, there were no taboos on the Internet in China (or the CCP had not developed a strict censorship system), and Google was still operating in China.

Lu Yuyu did not want to stay in Zunyi. He felt out of place in the environment and thought differently from his childhood friends. He felt like he would "rot here" if he didn't leave. He began to go out to work, in Yunnan, in Zhejiang; in construction sites, in factories, in Internet cafes. Later, at the invitation of the operator of "China Underground Music Network", he went to Yinchuan and became the general moderator of the website, responsible for introducing bands, uploading music materials, and managing forums. But the site went bankrupt before it started to make a profit.

He said that although he didn't feel anything unusual in his life, he always had a feeling of depression. "I don't know what exactly it came from."

In 2010, he returned to Zunyi. He fell in love with a girl, and planned to get married and settle down. Rural people are restricted by the household registration segregation system and have few opportunities to enter the system to work normally. In the process of urbanization, most of the rural population can only do odd jobs, or do small businesses with street vendors, or even join the underworld. The couple later broke up.

3 Screens of rights protection from the 2000s** to 2013**

China's human rights movement began in the early 2000s, with iconic incidents such as the detention and deportation case of Sun Zhigang (2003), the Southern Metropolis Daily's investigation and punishment for exposing SARS (2004), and Cai Zhuohua's sentence for printing a Bible (2004). 2005), lawyer Gao Zhisheng exposed and protested the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners (2005), independent candidates ran for the grassroots people's congress (2003-2006), Taishi villagers dismissed village officials (2005), civil scholars and lawyers opposed the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Discussions on Constitutionalism (2003-2008), Chen Guangcheng's Family Planning Case (2005-2006), Civil Society Participation Caused by the Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan (2008), Beijing Lawyers Advocating for Direct Election of the Lawyers Association (2008), and Charter 08 (2008).

However, these events were mainly led by scholars, opinion leaders, bloggers, and lawyers, with the help of the market media that had a relatively large space at the time.

In May 2007, China's first Twitter-like social networking site "Fanfo" appeared, attracting a large number of users. By the first half of 2009, the number of Fanfou users had exceeded one million, including a large number of ordinary people who were concerned about social events and political transformation after entering the 2000s. In 2009, on the tenth anniversary of the "June 4th", a large number of photos of the 1989 democracy movement appeared on Fanfou; during the Urumqi riots in July 2009, Fanfou became the fastest and largest dissemination tool for information. In August, Chinese authorities shut down Fanfou.

In August 2009, Sina Weibo was born, and within about a year, several social media such as NetEase Weibo and Tencent Weibo appeared. By April 2011, the number of registered users of Sina Weibo exceeded 100 million.

For ordinary Chinese, whether it is Fanwu or Sina, the emergence of Weibo is a fiery speech revolution as well as a silent social revolution. No matter where ordinary people are, they can obtain information from all directions through the Internet, and can "meet" anyone on the Internet. People with like-minded interests can gather, communicate, organize, and make friends on the Internet. What happened in a certain mountain village or small town before, no one knows, but through the Internet, they can quickly become a national public event, such as the assassination attempt of a young woman named Deng Yujiao in a small town in Badong, Hubei in May 2009. The incident of the local officials who raped her; for example, in December 2010, a village head named Qian Yunhui in Yueqing, Zhejiang Province was run over to death by a construction vehicle after leading villagers to resist land acquisition for many years.

During the period 2009-2011, there were two iconic figures who pushed public participation in activism to a larger scale. One is Beijing artist Ai Weiwei, and the other is Shandong blind and barefoot lawyer Chen Guangcheng.

Just to name a few. After the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan in 2008, Ai Weiwei mobilized dozens of volunteers in Sichuan to investigate and count the number of student deaths caused by the tofu dregs project. These events, as well as his documentary "Mother's Hoof Flowers", have attracted thousands of people's attention on Weibo. On May 12, 2010, Ai Weiwei released a large-scale sound work "Reading" on the Internet, which was composed of audio clips of thousands of netizens reciting the names of 5,196 dead students. A few years ago, when I walked into the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington to see Ai Weiwei's exhibition, what I heard was "Reading."

In November 2010, when Ai Weiwei's studio in Shanghai received a notice of demolition, he held a "crab banquet" in his studio, and nearly a thousand netizens from all over China attended.

Ai Weiwei disappeared in April 2011 and was released 81 days later. On November 1, Chinese authorities imposed a fine of RMB15,220,910 (approximately $2.34 million) on Ai Weiwei's studio for "tax evasion". Ai Weiwei turned this into a larger online campaign, launching a campaign to borrow money from netizens and designing a beautiful IOU. In just two weeks, nearly 30,000 netizens "loaned" to Ai Weiwei. Some people even folded RMB into a plane and dropped them into the courtyard of Ai Weiwei's studio in Caochangdi, Beijing. A Global Times editorial mocked, "Ai Weiwei's 'borrowing to pay taxes' is too dramatic." It's really dramatic and at the same time the most creative social mobilization. It can be said that many civil rights activists in China over the past decade have direct or indirect relationships with it.

On September 9, 2010, after Chen Guangcheng was sentenced to four years in prison for leading villagers to oppose violent family planning, he and his wife were immediately placed under house arrest by dozens of local government employees 24/7 and prohibited from going out. Surveillance cameras and cell phone jammers have been installed on his doorstep and on the road outside; strong lights illuminate his yard and surroundings at night. Netizens from all over the country began to spontaneously visit Chen Guangcheng in Dongshigu Village, Shandong Province, where they were stopped, beaten, abused, robbed or forcibly repatriated. Netizens posted these experiences to social media, triggering more netizens to visit Dongshigu. The visit to Chen Guangcheng became a one-and-a-half-year-long social media event, until Chen Guangcheng successfully fled in 2012. I remember when I first registered for a Weibo account in the fall of 2011, almost many liberal public intellectuals and a large number of netizens on Weibo had avatars with sunglasses on. Without platforms like Weibo, such a sense of rights and social movements would not have emerged and established so quickly.

That's why, between 2012 and 2013, CCP propaganda officials and party media kept sending out urgent signals that social media was a lost battleground that the party must regain, even as censorship tightened and Weibo was introduced in 2011 Real-name system.

4 to start

Lu Yuyu is one of the more than 100 million Sina Weibo users. He started using Weibo in 2011 and was attracted by waves of enthusiasm surrounding Ai Weiwei and Chen Guangcheng. However, he neither lent money to Ai Weiwei, nor did he want to go to East Shigu. Seeing that so many people went to Dongshigu to be beaten, he posted a Weibo saying, "Don't go to Linyi to be beaten, you might as well go to Beijing."

Just like that, the police in Zunyi found him. During the questioning at the police station, the police asked him why he asked everyone to go to Beijing. He told the truth, I think if you want to save Chen Guangcheng, it may not be a good way to go to Dongshigu, and it may be more effective to go to Beijing to exert pressure.

The police took a note and let him go. That was the first time the police looked for him.

After that, Lu Yuyu went to Shanghai soon. His sister runs a small clothing store in Shanghai, and he found a job installing pipes on a construction site. He started getting more exposure on Weibo, chatting online with activists around the world, many of whom were “graduates” from Dongshigu. In March 2012, more than a dozen human rights activists in Guangzhou held placards in the most prosperous commercial area, demanding that Hu Jintao take the lead in disclosing his property and demanding the right to free suffrage. He was immediately arrested by the police. Many people on the Internet took pictures in solidarity with them. Lu Yuyu also wanted to try it. Although he is already a 35-year-old man, he is less talkative and introverted, and his fear of holding a placard in public is deeper than the fear of being caught in prison. He wanted to find a partner to go with, but couldn't find one. He hesitated for a long time in front of the Shanghai Municipal Government. Finally, on the busy Nanjing Road, he made great determination to raise his placard, took a photo and left in a hurry. He posted the photo on the Internet to express his solidarity with his friends in Guangzhou.

His sign reads: Officials Public Property. Give us your ballots back.

Two days later, police found him at the construction site. He was working, covered in ashes. They took him to the police station for questioning for a day and released him. The police forbade him to stay in Shanghai any longer. Then he went to Sanya, Hainan to stay for a while, but couldn't stay, and returned to Shanghai. He was found by the police on the first day he returned to Shanghai. He was detained for 10 days. The police also went to harass his sister. No way, Lu Yuyu had to leave Shanghai again.

This is October 2012. Wu Gan (better known as Butcher), who was famous in many public events in those years and was widely respected by activists, asked Lu Yuyu to go to Fujian. There, Wu Gan's friends found him a job in a plastics factory.

In Fuzhou, he does not use his ID card, and his life is relatively stable. Working during the day and free time at night and on weekends, he started doing one thing. He began to search for the group protests that often appeared on various Weibo at that time, and then he began to publish the information on Weibo. He is an experienced searcher.

He said that at the time, Weibo was not very effective in deleting incidents of rights protection groups. He only had one mobile phone, and at the beginning, there were relatively few searches. "In the beginning, I remember that I could find eight or nine searches a day. After a week or two, it started to increase slowly, more than 20 a day. The next year, he bought an iPad, and his work was smoother. He would search The information he received was copied, and the pictures were saved, and then sent to Weibo, and then the source account was attached, sometimes one, sometimes several. After a few months, the more and more searched, the more every day, he began to feel overwhelmed. , physical and mental fatigue. He wanted to find someone to do it with, but couldn't find it. His account @darkmamu will be deleted after a few days or a month, and sometimes it will last a little longer. After deleting it, he will re-register Account, called “Reincarnation.” At his peak, he had about 10,000 followers.

By April or May 2013, he felt that he could no longer work while working. The pressures of survival are real and must be faced every day. He was going to give up. He felt that if he couldn't do it full-time, it wouldn't make much sense. When he expressed his wishes on Weibo, he did not expect that many people follow his account. Many netizens on Weibo, including several very active opinion leaders in the protest circle, such as Yan Jinfeng, Mo Zhixu, and Wu Qiang, a professor at Tsinghua University who observes and studies social movements, all expressed their desire to help him keep this matter going. Everyone started crowdfunding for him, and he received more than 20,000 RMB donations for the first time.

5 Li Tingyu and 'non-news' bloggers

Li Tingyu was one of many young people who followed Lu Yuyu on Weibo at that time. She is from Cantonese and was born in 1991. She was a third-year English major at the School of Foreign Languages of Sun Yat-sen University in Zhuhai, and she was one of the many young people who were concerned about social justice and longing for freedom in those years. In early 2013, she went to Guangzhou to participate in the protest against the censorship and revision of the Southern Weekly New Year's message. Because of this experience, she became the target of the political police's attention. State security interrogated her, and the school's political teachers often warned her.

She and Lu Yuyu chatted through private messages on Weibo, and they chatted a lot in 2013. In the spring, she started working with him and became a couple. He is in charge of searching and posting the information he finds on Weibo; she is in charge of archiving collections.

But she's not just in charge of archiving collections. She upgraded Lu Yuyu's work.

First of all, she started a blog named "non-news" (news worth knowing), and uploaded the information and pictures she searched every day to the blog. In June 2013, she opened a "non-news" Twitter account (@wickedonnaa), where she tweets the information she gathers on a daily basis. Their work becomes more formal and professional.

In August 2013, Lu Yuyu moved from Fuzhou to Zhuhai, and they rented a house and lived together. Lu Yuyu finds more and more things every day, and Li Tingyu's workload is also increasing. "From the end of 2013 to 2014, you can still search on Tencent Weibo and Qzone," Lu Yuyu said. "She does it every day, but if she can't finish it, there will be a backlog of about five or six days. There are too many, especially in the month before the Spring Festival, when migrant workers ask for a lot of wages. If you search casually every day, there may be dozens, hundreds of cases. In a relatively large incident, there may be thousands of pictures. She can’t finish it. I remember that I found a person on the Internet to help with it, but after that person did it for a week, the state security came to the door , and his computer was also searched."

Of course, the National Security also found them. "If I break your laws," he told the police, "you can arrest me." The police didn't arrest them, but the harassment ensued. Landlords were pressured to move out; they were threatened from windows; their water mains were cut.

Shortly after the Spring Festival in 2014, the two of them left Zhuhai and moved to Dali. Li Tingyu didn't go through the withdrawal procedures, so she voluntarily dropped out in the last semester of the university and left with Lu Yuyu.

After arriving in Dali, they began a life of isolation, minimizing contact with the outside world. Dali is a tourist city with many foreigners and cheap prices. They live in inns for about one thousand yuan a month (about $160) and can change places frequently. Lu Yuyu not only does not use a mobile phone, but also does not need his own ID card. Li Tingyu used a calling card. They use VPNs to surf the Internet and publish information.

They work at least eight more hours a day, and if they don't keep up, the work piles up. On weekends or long holidays, the content is relatively small. They will ride a bicycle to go out to play, go to Erhai Lake, go to Xizhou; sometimes go shopping in the ancient city, listen to a band, or sit in a small bar.

Sometimes foreign reporters contact him online about a certain incident, which to a certain extent enhances Lu Yuyu's professional awareness of verifying the authenticity of the information. "The first is to verify through multiple sources of information: the same event has different sources of information that can corroborate each other, plus pictures, videos, and geographic information, it can be confirmed. Some events occur in remote places with few sources of information. Sometimes there is even only one source of information. In this case, we can judge from pictures and videos, and then contact the person who sent the message to confirm. As for more detailed information, such as the cause of the event and the number of demonstrators, we usually also contact the person concerned. Like For information such as the number of people arrested, the source of the information may not say it on Weibo.” Fortunately, those who posted the original information on Weibo hoped to spread the information. When Lu Yuyu asked them for confirmation, they were all willing to speak.

Their last post before their arrest was June 13, 2016, and 94 incidents were recorded, including workers protesting unpaid wages, farmers protesting environmental pollution and forced land acquisition, demolition households protesting breaches of trust by the government and developers, and owners’ rights violations. Or management services for rights protection, investors protesting financing fraud, veterans protesting unfair treatment, etc. Among them, Pan-Asian investors gathered at the State Bureau of Letters and Calls in Beijing to recover the investment funds, and tens of thousands of people participated; the demobilized soldiers went to the Bureau of Letters and Calls of the Central Military Commission for a meeting, demanding the implementation of rank treatment and confirmation of cadre status, and 2,100 people participated.

In 13 days in June, they recorded a total of 840 protests, ranging from 34 per day to 110 per day. These records, including photos and videos, are posted daily on Twitter.

Active Twitter users probably have this feeling: seeing this kind of account that only posts content at a fixed time, never participates in chat, and never posts any life information, it is inevitable to have some doubts about who is behind it and what is the motive. and distrust. It's hard to imagine that @wickedonnaa is behind such a millennial named Li Tingyu, a girl who can't be more ordinary. She Lu Yuyu is doing a hard job. They only have 17K followers, and they don't have many retweets, usually between a few to a dozen. But that doesn't seem to stop them from sticking to the job day in and day out. Over the years, they recorded more than 70,000 mass protests.

They are very interested in this work. "I feel a sense of accomplishment after working every day," Lu Yuyu said. "Because these things are not found anywhere else, only we are doing them."

They collected the major protests that took place in those years. In March 2014, more than 10,000 citizens in Maoming protested against the government's construction of the PX (aromatic hydrocarbon) project. In April 2014, nearly 100,000 workers in more than ten factories of Yue Yuen Shoe Industry in Dongguan, Guangdong went on strike to protest that the company deceived employees in purchasing social security funds, resulting in workers receiving only a small pension after retirement. Also in April 2014, in a small town in Cangnan County, Zhejiang, there was a conflict between urban management and a street vendor. A middle-aged man was beaten by five urban management with hammers for taking pictures next to him until he vomited blood, and his life and death were unknown. The angry crowd started beating the five chengguans, and then thousands of protesters smashed and overturned police cars, ambulances, and chengguan law enforcement vehicles.

Lu Yuyu noticed, "In 2013, protests like the beating of people by urban management officers, on average, there must have been a relatively large scale of tens of thousands of people every week. But I remember very clearly that after the incident of beating people by urban management officers in Cangnan, Mass protests from events like this are noticeably rare. I'm guessing the government has a special early warning mechanism for this type of event. If there's a crowd on the street, they'll probably be there in a matter of minutes to deal with it , there will not be a time difference to ferment as before. It is not that the urban management does not beat people now, but there is no time and space to ferment among the people now.”

He said, "The demonstrations on environmental protection have also declined on a large scale since 2014, unlike in 2012 and 2013, there were many. After 2014, the government should deal with this situation in particular."

Lu Yuyu and Li Tingyu lived in Dali for more than two years, which was relatively quiet and beautiful. Lu Yuyu said. "We spend a lot of time working every day. I'm less talkative, she'll ask me about my childhood, and sometimes she'll talk about hers, like broadcasting on the school radio station when I was in high school. More often she does Hers, I do mine."

He is responsible for grocery shopping and cooking every day. She doesn't pick and choose and eats everything. They have a cat named Xiaoxiu. Lu Yuyu has a guitar and plays it when he is free. Sometimes Li Tingyu longs for a social life, but such desires must be given up because they need to be hidden. In the past two years, except to see a friend once or twice, they gave up any communication. Even if they knew from the Internet that a friend came to Dali, they did not contact. Sometimes Li Tingyu would buy some small things, buy too much, and blame Lu Yuyu for not restraining her. "Life is hard enough for two people, just a little bit of luxury," he told her. They hardly ever quarreled.

6 Danger is approaching

Lu Yuyu had a hunch about the danger that was coming.

In 2014 and before, his Sina Weibo posts had a relatively high number of reposts, and some of them could reach tens of thousands, or at least hundreds; when a certain number of posts were reposted, the post would be deleted. But since 2015, netizens of his posts are often unable to forward. A reincarnated variant of his @darkmamu account, which will be deleted upon discovery. Some people will send him a private message on Weibo to ask some strange things, such as paying to delete a certain message.

Once he was notified of 2-step authentication for Gmail, he knew someone was trying to log into his email offsite.

One day when they were riding an electric bike in the ancient city, a person suddenly rushed out of the road. Lu Yuyu hurriedly avoided, and he and Li Tingyu both fell to the ground. The man didn't help or apologize. A woman and three men next to him, who were with the man, stood on the road and watched. "They don't look like tourists, and they don't dress like tourists. I feel very wrong. I didn't get angry at all at that time, and Li Tingyu said a few words to them. Just these signs, it may be normal, or it may be that I think too much. Well, it's all things that are unclear."

He commissioned a friend to archive non-news sites.

He never discussed the possibility of being caught with Li Tingyu. However, "she also knows that if we continue to do this, we will definitely be imprisoned. I remember that a reporter seemed to ask me what my plans were, and I said that I would always do it when I was caught and couldn't do it."

"I remember that after I was caught, I saw that the dossier said '1517 Picking quarrels and provoking trouble'. That was probably the date when the authorities set up the task force. This time coincided with the time when I felt there was a noticeable change. I could feel it. It was not a local case in Dali, and it was later confirmed that it was a project of the Ministry of Public Security. Before they found us, they had already set up a special task force. After finding us, they entrusted the police and the State security. When they arraigned me, they always had a list in their hands. And the materials they were handling the case were not available to a city public security bureau, because on Sina Weibo, those materials were deleted. , some have been deleted for years, but they all have."

7 released

On November 7, 2016, Lu Yuyu and Li Tingyu were awarded the "Press Freedom Award" by Reporters Without Borders 2016 . Other winners in the same year were Syrian journalist Hadi Abdullah and China's 64 Tianwang.

In prison, Lu Yuyu insisted not to plead guilty. He told DW not long ago, "Once they escalated my case to 'inciting subversion of state power', which would be sentenced to more than seven years in prison, but I still didn't plead guilty. Later they sent it back to the procuratorate and changed it to 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble', sentenced to four years in prison. Prosecutors will come to me every fortnight, they will ask if I have given me a chance, say this is the last chance, and they will sentence me if I don't plead guilty very heavy."

In prison, he suffered from severe depression and could not receive treatment.

On June 15, 2020, Lu Yuyu was released on the first day after his 43rd birthday, and was immediately sent back to Zunyi, Guizhou by the police. When he was in prison, he learned from the procuratorate that Li Tingyu was sentenced to 2 years and suspended for 3 years.

The first thing Lu Yuyu did after he was released from prison was to find Jane - Li Tingyu. He asked Li Tingyu's lawyer and other friends, but no one had any news about Li Tingyu. He tweeted, "Jane, please contact me if you see any news." Maybe she'll watch Twitter.

Finally, he found Li Tingyu's mother on WeChat. She told him that Li Tingyu was married and told him not to look for her again. He doesn't believe it.

Then they had a conversation. She said she had a new life, but "she kept crying,". She said that the three years since she came out have been very hard. She also said that the happiest three years in her life were the three years she spent with Lu Yuyu. After that call, they never contacted him again. "I heard from the phone that day that she was quite frightened," Lu Yuyu said. "She didn't call from her own phone, but from someone else's phone." He was determined to stop disturbing her and hoped that she would find peace.

After Lu Yuyu was released from prison, he found that the current political environment was worse than four years ago . "China's grid management is all-encompassing and doesn't give you any space," he said. "In the virtual space, it doesn't let you speak up; in the real space, it makes you have no place to stand, makes you bow your head, and even some people will be threatened as informants." Indeed, the rights protection movement has gone through waves after nearly ten years. Extermination-style suppression seems to have disintegrated and become more fragmented; arbitrary detention is more arbitrary, long-term detention without sentence or secret trials are becoming the norm.

To Lu Yuyu's surprise, the netizens in the past did not forget him. Two months after he was released from prison, he received 75 letters from signed and anonymous netizens. He started a #tansun hashtag on Twitter, posting the letters. During his four years in prison, he received only one letter and one postcard. The letter was from elder sister Wang Lihong, a human rights activist who was also living in Dali at the time. The postcard was from an anonymous person, with only four words written on it: "Get more sun."

"The Internet has memories, we all have. Everything you do is meaningful and valuable, and there are many people who miss you, thank you."

"This letter is not so much written to you as to my pain and conscience... I don't have the courage and strength to do what you have done, and I don't have the capital and courage to escape, I can only think I miss you, and continue to live cowardly."

A few days ago, a netizen shared with him the unprovoked happiness and sense of freedom that comes from flying high in the sky.

But back home, he told VOA , he had no friends and no one understood him. His Communist father told him, "Don't do anything bad." Relatives urged him to "do something serious and stop being like before." In short, everyone thought he had done something shameful.

Of course, the ones who take care of him the most are the police . After he was released from prison, the authorities asked him to report to the Comprehensive Management Office of the police station and notify them after obtaining the phone card, and they wanted to monitor his mobile phone. Usually there is a police officer in charge of him, and he needs to know his news at any time. He was warned not to return to Dali, not to go to Beijing, Shanghai, or Xinjiang; he had to report to them when he went out of town. In the autumn, he went out for a month to visit Sichuan, Fujian and Guangdong to see friends. In Guangzhou, he was deported by the police. Recently, the police are pressuring the landlord to try to force him to move out.

Will he continue to work "non-journalism" or something like that? We want to know, and the police who monitor him want to know even more. Impossible, he said, if I do something like this again, I will be in jail again in a month.

During the summer, he began writing about four years in prison, titled "Incorrect Memories." He has finished writing the prison section. Next write the prison section. He shared part of it on Twitter. Surprisingly, he is a very good author. His writing, like his character, is very tart, but precise. The brutality of prisons, even on paper, is enough to make people flinch. I hope to write about this topic in another article.

"I'm not a hero," he said . "I'm not the part of the people who stayed to fight. I did 'non-journalism' because I liked it. I didn't leave [China] because I was born at the bottom of society and had no chance. I didn't give in because I knew The price of submission. I want to be a dignified person."

After reading Cao Yaxue's article, I searched for Lu Yuning and found that he also has a homepage on Matters , although he is still invisible and only published two articles. So I followed him and he shut me down too. Yu Ning, we are really brothers now.

Today, I saw another interview with him on the homepage of China Digital Times. Glad he was seen and noticed.

Reporter｜Protest and Records, Invisibility and Surveillance——Interview with Lu Yuyu, Founder of China Protest Records Website

He set up his own website and independently collected records of people's rights protection struggles. The state arrested him and jailed him for 4 years. What I saw was dark, but there were still so many people, so few words, glowing.

After coming out of prison, the three things Lu Yuyu did most often were learning English, exercising and "basking in the sun".

"Bathing in the sun" is not really basking in the sun. While serving his sentence in prison, Lu Yuyu received an anonymous postcard with only four words: "Get more sun." After he was released from prison, he wanted to find the person who wrote the postcard, so he took a photo and posted it on Twitter. It was retweeted many times, and people who cared about him also began to write down the words to Lu Yuyu with paper and pen, and then took pictures and sent him a private message.

"Thank you for your dedication. The faint light in the vast sea is also a dazzling light on other gray islands." "This letter is not so much for you, but for my pain and conscience... ""Let's look forward to the dawn together, the sun will come out."  …

The photos were also posted on Twitter by him with the hashtag "#basking."

On June 15, 2016, Lu Yuyu and his then girlfriend Li Tingyu were arrested and prosecuted by the Chinese authorities for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", and were later sentenced to 4 years in prison. Li Tingyu was also sentenced to 2 years and suspended for 3 years. The basis for the conviction , are the 8 messages they posted online.

"The light we can emit individually may be limited or weak, but together, it is the sun. To warm ourselves, it will also burn to illuminate others."

His statistics are irreplaceable

Since 2012, Lu Yuyu has been collecting and sorting out information on mass incidents in China on the Internet. After a basic check of the facts, he publishes it on his blog or social media accounts. Statistical analysis of the number and types of mass events in the month. Until his arrest, he recorded more than 70,000 mass incidents, including police-civilian conflicts, strikes, environmental protests, and owners' rights protection.

Since 2008, Chinese officials have stopped publishing statistics on mass incidents. Although Lu Yuyu did not come from the news media or academic system, the data he released has basically become the only channel for the outside world to understand mass incidents in China. Many researchers will conduct research based on his data. At that time, Han Zhang (Han Zhang, now an assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) at Princeton University, and Jennifer Pan (Jennifer Pan at Stanford University) used the data he collected to develop He developed an algorithm to automatically identify mass events on social media; the Hong Kong labor organization "China Labor Bulletin" also visualized his data and made a map of Chinese labor.

"For me, a researcher of social movements, and for all those who are concerned about rights protection in China, the significance of Lu Yuyu's statistics is irreplaceable," wrote Wu Qiang, a former lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, in an article . " It should be noted that the Chinese government has stopped publishing annual statistics on "mass incidents" since 2008, and this trend of protests has increased year by year, from 10,000 protests with more than 10 people in 1994, to 58,000 in 2003, 2004 There were 74,000 cases in 2008, and it is estimated that it exceeded 100,000 in 2008. Among them, the protests of more than 1,000 people are only kept internally and not published. The media can only learn from public reports and sporadic reports on the Internet, and there is a lack of continuous statistics. It is even more difficult for researchers, who can only track trends based on limited print media reports, and print media reports are greatly affected by propaganda caliber and policy changes. The protest incidents collected and counted by Lu Yuyu based on new media appear to be far less than The official scale of mass incidents 10 years ago is the only independent source that the outside world can continuously refer to.”

His anger dives into the sea of nets

In 1977, Lu Yuyu was born in the countryside of Zunyi, Guizhou. His father went to sea to do business in the 1980s. When he was a teenager, his family was well-off in the local area. Because of this, he came into contact with rock music very early, and in the rebellious spirit of rock music, he began the earliest ideological enlightenment.

Lu Yuyu said that he has been rebellious since he was a child. As he grew up, he felt more and more depressed and angry. "But at that time, I didn't know what the source of my depression and anger was."

Later, Lu Yuyu was admitted to Guizhou University of Finance and Economics to study political economy, but was dropped out due to a fight. After that, he started a long working career and worked as a construction worker, Internet cafe network manager, plumber, warehouse manager and other occupations.

"When I was working part-time, I felt very miserable and had a strong sense of being controlled. Later, when I posted on Weibo in 2011, I realized that there were people like Ai Weiwei and Chen Guangcheng , and I also realized what kind of life I wanted to pursue. "He said that his real enlightenment was in 2011.

In 2011, the rear-end collision of a high-speed train in Wenzhou shocked the whole country, and public opinion fully condemned the official investigation results. In the same year, netizens launched a campaign to visit Chen Guangcheng, a human rights lawyer who was under house arrest, and activist artist Ai Weiwei was also accused of tax evasion, ordered to pay huge fines, and launched an operation to borrow money from netizens.

Lu Yuyu was very interested in these burgeoning civic movements, but the "start" was not smooth. "I remember one time someone said that I was going to Linyi (the place where Chen Guangcheng was under house arrest) to set off fireworks, and I said, go to Beijing. As a result, the national security guard came the next day, and that was the first time I was drunk. Tea."

In 2012, he made another banner that read, "Require officials to disclose their property and return the votes to us." He held a flash mob on Nanjing Road, the busiest street in Shanghai. As a result, he was not only detained by the police for 10 days, but also detained for 10 days. From then on, he was targeted and chased by the police. It was only with the help of rights activist Wu Gan (net name "Super Vulgar Butcher") that he settled down in Fuzhou for a while.

"This method of raising a placard to protest has very limited actual results, except to exercise one's courage," Lu Yuyu reflected. In 2012, some larger mass protests occurred in China. At that time, Chinese Internet control was not as strict and refined as it is now. When searching for these protest information, Lu Yuyu found many small-scale and lesser-known protest information. Lu Yuyu, who had a hobby of collecting since he was a child, wanted to record all the protest events he collected.

In October 2012, while working part-time, Lu Yuyu started the search and sorting of mass incidents, and posted the collected information on Weibo. Because of this, his Weibo account is often deleted. "(Registered Weibo accounts) should be close to 1,000. At first, I registered myself, and then I used a virtual number to register, but in the end, the number needed was too large. Taobao bought it.”

Compared with offline protests, Lu Yuyu believes that online records are more suitable for him. "I am introverted and I don't like socializing. I can record in this way without having to deal with people." That doesn't mean you have to cut off contact with the outside world. Although it has been deleted several times, it is not difficult to find his "reincarnation" accounts, which usually start with dark and have the same avatar. From time to time, the Weibo account will also receive private messages expressing encouragement and gratitude. Li Tingyu contacted him after seeing the news released by Lu Yuyu.

Jane and non-journalism

Li Tingyu, Lu Yuyu's "accomplice", he called her Jane. The last time they saw each other was the day they were arrested together.

In June 2016, "When I got to the express station, Jane went in to pick up the package, and I was waiting for her on the road outside the aisle. Suddenly a few men came around, and I had imagined countless times before this day and how it would look like. Coping. But everything happened too fast, too late to react, too late to fear, I was pushed into a black car next to me with my hands twisted, and I was put on a black hood. I think maybe they don't know that Jane is at Taobao Station. Go inside—this is too naive. She was escorted from Taobao by several policewomen, and she was escorted into another car while shouting my name."

Lu Yuyu and Li Tingyu first met in 2013.

In June 2013, Lu Yuyu quit his job in the factory and started to do information search full-time, so his income became very unstable. Lu Yuyu once posted that he didn't want to continue doing this. After Li Tingyu saw it, he said he wanted to visit him, hoping to make more people aware of the importance of statistics on mass incidents.

Li Tingyu was still an English major at Sun Yat-sen University at the time, and was very concerned about social issues, and also participated in the protest of the Nanzhou New Year's speech event in early 2013.

"Jane sent me a private message and said that she was very interested in the information I found and thought it would be useful for social movement research. We chatted without a word."

"We chat for a long time every day. Once Jane suddenly said, in fact, I started reading your Weibo at the end of last year, and I also read your QQ profile. Naturally, we began to fall in love."

After Li Tingyu joined, she gave a name to this project that collects mass events—non-news. She did not explain why she chose this name, but Lu Yuyu guessed that the name was because of the content they collected, and it was news that they would not see in the media.

The invisible man in Dali who deletes his emails every day

The two lived in Zhuhai for a period of time, but they were harassed by the state security because they couldn't bear it. In 2014, Lu Yuyu and Li Tingyu decided to move to Dali together.

Their life in Dali is simple. Lu Yuyu is an introvert and doesn't like socializing. After Dali, he lived an "invisible man" life: he didn't need a mobile phone or any social software. The living expenses of the two are basically supported by donations from netizens. Lu Yuyu also pays great attention to protecting the safety of donors. "In order not to implicate those friends who have been silently supporting me, I have developed the habit of deleting emails every day, and I have never checked who sent me money and how much."

This monotonous way of life is sometimes unbearable. "One time Jane suddenly said to me, Lu Yuyu, I want to make some friends, but I don't have any friends in Dali. I'm speechless, maybe this kind of life is too boring for her. I used to have friends in Dali. I have a few friends, but I have never contacted since I arrived in Dali. One is a little social anxiety, and the other is that I don’t have enough time.”

When he started to do this full-time, Lu Yuyu spent more than 8 hours a day in information retrieval, and he did not rest during festivals and holidays.

Although he has to deal with a large amount of information every day, Lu Yuyu insists on fact-checking relevant information before publishing it. He has also encountered false information, usually using old pictures as recent events, and it is not difficult for him to tell the truth. In addition, he will also conduct cross-examination, usually looking for two or more sources to corroborate, and he often asks the publisher for verification by sending private messages and calling.

Because of this rigor, it is difficult to find evidence to convict him. In the end, only 8 pieces of evidence were found from more than 70,000 messages that were identified as "false information" because they were inconsistent with the government's statement.

"My sentence should be 35,000 years"

Netizens took pictures of their own post-it notes to cheer Lu Yuyu, and then sent the photos to him. (Photo courtesy of Amnesty International)

Although he lived an "invisible man" life in Dali, Lu Yuyu never really felt safe. Since 2015, Weibo accounts that start with "dark" will be deleted immediately, and he often receives some very strange messages. All the signs make him feel that something is wrong. "I was prepared and had a hunch about the prison. I just avoided talking to Jane about this. Talking about it will only increase my fear and will not change our destiny."

In June 2016, the fear became a reality.

After his arrest, he was taken to the Public Security Bureau and Detention Center. Three or four months after he was arrested, the staff of the procuratorate began to talk to him again, hoping that he would plead guilty. But Lu Yuyu resolutely pleaded not guilty. In an interview with Deutsche Welle, he said: "After so many years, if I plead guilty, it means I deny myself, it means to overturn my beliefs, I think this may Two or three years less in prison, but I will definitely regret it when I come out.”

In March 2017, the Dali Prefecture Procuratorate charged Lu Yuyu with the crime of "inciting subversion of state power" under the circumstance that the persuasion to plead guilty was ineffective, and the maximum sentence was life imprisonment, but Lu Yuyu still refused to plead guilty. Will come to me once and say this is the last chance and if I don't plead guilty I will be sentenced very hard."

Due to insufficient evidence, the procuratorate charged Lu Yuyu with the crime of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." He was convicted and sentenced to 4 years in prison. The basis for his conviction was the eight Weibo posts. Lu Yuyu refused to accept the verdict and appealed, but the second instance upheld the original verdict, "The presiding judge finally asked me what I wanted to say, and I said that I have recorded almost 70,000 various mass incidents over the years. According to the standard of 4 years, my sentence should be 35,000 years. The auditorium was in a frenzy, and lawyers Xiao (Yunyang) and Wang (Zong Yue) also laughed, and the presiding judge announced the trial with a blank face. When it was over, I was taken back to the detention center again.”

For the 4-year sentence, Lu Yuyu spent 1 year and 4 months in the detention center and 2 years and 8 months in prison. "The conditions of detention centers and prisons are very poor. You can't eat any oil or meat in them, so you often feel very hungry." In prison, I usually get up at 6 o'clock every day, and I have to work until 6 o'clock in the evening, and then collectively watch The news broadcast - this is the only way to get information from the outside world in prison.

Since the information from the outside world is basically blocked, Lu Yuyu said that he did not have much judgment on many things during the 4 years of detention, and his will was very depressed, and he felt very depressed every day. Especially in prisons, all prisoners are respectful to the prison guards, "everyone is domesticated into a machine", and they are out of tune with the surrounding environment.

Lu Yuyu suffered from depression while serving his sentence. He tried to contact the prison guards to report. The prison authorities also asked the female police officer in charge of psychological counseling to come twice, and also did a psychological test evaluation, but there was no solution. He had asked to find a psychiatrist outside at his own expense, but in the end it was nothing.

Although the stone is hard, the egg is the life

In June of this year, Lu Yuyu was released after serving his sentence, but the symptoms of depression have always accompanied Lu Yuyu.

"Because of being diagnosed with severe depression, I now take medicine and exercise regularly every day, and spend some time learning English and reading books. That's about all I can do."

But on the phone call not long ago, he said that his condition was much better than when he was just released from prison, because he had traveled around the country in the past few months and met a circle of friends. But unfortunately, he still does not have complete freedom of movement, especially at some "sensitive times". On November this year, he was traveling in Guangzhou when he was discovered by the local state security and sent back to Zunyi.

Just a few days before Lu Yuyu was released from prison, the State Council Information Office of China published a white paper titled "China's Actions to Fight the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic". Because the anti-epidemic narrative cannot be misled and tainted by lies, but should leave a correct collective human memory.”

Lu Yuyu is also writing about his own experiences of doing "non-news" and being arrested and detained, and the name is called "Incorrect Memory".

Free Asia | Founder of "Non-News" who pioneered rights protection reporting, Lu Yuyu was released from prison after serving his sentence

Mainland Chinese citizen journalist Lu Yuyu, founder of non-news, a civil rights and protest record platform, was released on Monday (October 15, 2020) after serving a four-year sentence for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble". It is understood that he is currently undergoing quarantine in his hometown of Guizhou. Some commentators believe that "non-news" opened up a new way for China's rights protection reporting, but it is still full of thorns.

Lu Yuyu, who had been detained for four years, was released from Dali City Prison on Monday after serving his sentence and returned to his hometown of Guizhou, accompanied by someone from the Guizhou authorities. After he arrived, he reported to his lawyer Wang Zongyue that he was safe.

Wang Zongyue: "He's been released from prison and has already arrived home, and he's already reported safe when he gets home. When he called me, he heard his tone, and his mental state was still okay."

Before the arrest, Lu Yuyu and his girlfriend Li Tingyu used the "non-news" screen name to count and publish mass incidents in China on Twitter. In the heyday, they reported more than 29,000 incidents in one year. Until 2016, the two were detained for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble". The following year, Lu Yuyu was sentenced to 4 years, and Li Tingyu, who was dealt with separately, was released on bail.

Wang Lihong, a human rights activist who has deposited things for Lu Yuyu many times during his detention, revealed that Lu Yuyu suffered from depression in prison.

Wang Lihong: "During that time, the depression was very serious, and I couldn't sleep, so I wanted to ask his father to tell the lawyer that he wanted to see a doctor, but it seemed that he couldn't achieve his wish at the time. Later, the lawyer visited her once and helped him do it. The appeal, the appeal was dismissed, must be in a very bad mood. He used to be a stubborn person, and it is estimated that the environment must be very bad. We once sent him a book, and the book was returned. His father may also be Haven't been there for a long time."

The living space of mainland rights protection news is getting narrower and narrower

Lulian, a researcher at the international human rights organization Amnesty International, believes that "non-news" has created a precedent for "focusing on groups" and has changed the vision of human rights reporting.

Lulian: "In those days, some of the information and reports collected by 'non-news' were often local strikes, demonstrations or mass events, which were very real-time. The way they reported might be a little different from some human rights networks. It's not just focusing on one Activists, but a group event, concerned with the issues faced by the entire group.”

She said that rights protection websites have an increasingly narrow living space in China, and WeChat is closely monitored by the authorities, and news is often blocked before it is published. Although there is technology to help, the prospects are not optimistic.

Lulian: "We see many Chinese friends who use different methods, one of which is GitHub, because it has not been blocked in mainland China, and many friends in IT (information technology) also use it, but its The dissemination is relatively slow. Even if you successfully put the information on it, it is not easy to send the link. Even if you find a platform to collect information in the future, it will become more and more difficult to disseminate or collect real-time information from different channels. "

Before his arrest, he worked hard to sort out and publish the events of rights protection groups across China, which made Lu Yuyu and Li Tingyu highly recognized by the international community. Four years ago, he was awarded the annual Press Freedom Award by the NGO Reporters Without Borders.

Lu Yuyu, Founder of Non-News: Incorrect Historical Memory 2012-2020 Those who picked quarrels and provoked trouble (1)

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At noon on June 15, 2016, the weather was as good as ever. Jane, who was sitting in a rice noodle shop in Liuli Ancient Town, told me that the owner of the courier station had sent several text messages and asked us to hurry up and get the courier.

Did not feel anything unusual. After we finished eating rice noodles, we rode an electric car back to the city. It was not far from the ancient city, about six or seven miles away. When I arrived at the express station, I went to Taobao station to pick up the express. There was an aisle about 10 meters long from Taobao station to the roadside. I was waiting for her on the road outside the aisle. Several men were shortlisted, and I had imagined countless times before this day and how to deal with it. But it all happened so fast that I didn't have time to react or even fear. I was escorted into a car next to me with my hands twisted, and then I was put on a black hood. I think maybe they don't know that Jane is in Taobao Station - it's so childish. Jane was escorted out of Taobao by several policewomen, shouting my name, and then escorted into another car. I started to feel sick.

Then a middle-aged man told me that we belonged to the Dali City Public Security Bureau and that we were arresting you on what basis. I was not in the mood to listen. Ask me to take them to where we live. They were all their people along the way, and the driver would occasionally stop and say something to them. When I was about to get home, I saw Jane in a car, wearing a black hood. This was the last time I saw Jane in these years, and the last time I Xu was in this life.

The place where we rented was thoroughly searched by them, and everything had to be photographed with me once. Xiao Huangmao kept calling downstairs. Who will take care of him in the future? When the New Year was approaching, Xiaoxiu ran away from home and never came back, thinking he would come back after playing enough like before, but not this time, we tried to find it and gave up, the scope was too large, and we were too busy . Jane asked me why I didn't look for it because I didn't feel sad. I said that when I was born, I was constantly separated, so what's so sad. I'm just being tough.

About half a month ago, after numerous negotiations with Jane, we brought back Xiao Huangmao on the condition that he must be sterilized when he grows up. Let's bring it back first, sterilization will definitely not be done. When Xiao Huangmao came, he could not walk steadily, but he adapted very quickly. On the third day, he was able to climb upstairs and sleep beside me.

After tossing for about two hours, I sat on a tiger bench in a room of the Dali Public Security Bureau and began to be asked various questions. Everything I do is public and I have nothing to hide. I even thought about what to do with Xiao Huangmao while answering their questions? Will they let Jane go?

I kept asking until the early morning of the next day. After changing several times, I ate a lunch box in the middle, but I couldn’t eat it, so I took a drug test. At 4 o'clock in the morning, I was escorted into a car and I didn't know where to go. I asked them if they had let Jane go. One of them sneered and said, worry about yourself.

About half an hour later, I arrived at my destination. It was raining all the time. After a brief negotiation, I was escorted through several gates. The last gate was written "Men Stop". Everything I was wearing was taken off, and after changing into a musty suit, I walked through the gate with the men's stop sign.

Dorm 6 is about 30 square meters, and there is a 10 square meter ventilation room outside, but only during certain hours of the day can go outside. Three people were already sleeping in it, and one of them got up quickly to help me lay the mattress and throw a smelly quilt over. I couldn’t sleep, so I called the roll call at 7 o’clock. I didn’t eat breakfast, and I lost my appetite. I was called out at 8 o’clock to continue asking me to identify the information I posted on Sina. Wasn't it deleted by Sina? It is estimated that the data provided by Sina's backstage, or they have been collecting this information for a long time. They kept recognizing, going together again and again, and didn't go back to the number room to sleep until one o'clock in the morning.

Halfway through, I asked them to take care of Xiao Huangmao and give me some money to buy daily necessities. You won't be able to go out for a while, we've found someone for you to adopt, a policeman said. I don't know if it's true or not. It is inconvenient to withdraw money now. Jane has 300. I will give you half of it. I refused, because Jane also used the money. Later, they said that Jane will keep 200 and you want 100, and I will withdraw the money for you in a few days. I agreed.

Every day after that, I was exhausted. About 4 days after June, I told them that starting today, I will not answer any of your questions after 5 o'clock. Then it's only 5 o'clock. That is, on that day, when we signed the notice, we learned that our case was a special case of the Ministry of Public Security - the 1517 case of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, which usually refers to January 7, 2015. No wonder the mailbox was frequently attacked during that time!