

In 2019, Professor Yuan Keqin and his wife made a brief trip to China to attend his mother’s funeral. After entering China, Yuan disappeared. Denied a lawyer for two years, Yuan was detained and convicted under the Counter-Espionage Law. Now, he has reportedly been released, but may remain under surveillance.
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Human Rights in China strongly condemns the large-scale crackdown on the “Fan’er Community” online anime forum by the Yuhuan Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province.