Since 2012, I have been engaged in human rights activism and have experienced countless forms of repression. Especially since February 2023, under the leadership of Shangqiu Municipal Party Secretary Li Guosheng and Mayor Bai Xiangyang in Henan Province, various officials have colluded to suppress and persecute me relentlessly, driving me to despair and implicating my family and friends. Based on my personal experience and media reports, I have summarized 100 ways in which the CCP suppresses and persecutes law-abiding citizens:
Legal Suppression
1. Convicting individuals under the charge of “inciting subversion of state power”
2. Using the charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” to suppress dissent
3. Charging journalists and lawyers with “leaking state secrets”
4. Arresting activists under the charge of “illegal assembly”
5. Suppressing protesters with the charge of “disrupting social order”
6. Fabricating charges of “fraud” or “economic crimes”
7. Using “inciting ethnic hatred” to suppress ethnic rights activists
8. Prosecuting independent publishers for “illegal business operations”
9. Convicting dissidents of “colluding with foreign forces”
10. Drafting vague legal provisions to grant law enforcement arbitrary power
Imprisonment and Torture
11. Long-term imprisonment
12. Solitary confinement
13. Denying family visitation rights
14. Forced labor
15. Physical abuse and beatings
16. Electric shock torture
17. Forced feeding (targeting hunger strikers)
18. Sleep deprivation
19. Confinement in extreme conditions (high heat or severe cold)
20. Injecting unknown drugs
Surveillance and Harassment
21. 24/7 tracking
22. Installing bugging devices
23. Hacking into social media accounts
24. Cyberattacks on dissidents' websites
25. Blocking emails and communications
26. Employing internet trolls to attack dissidents
27. Installing surveillance cameras outside homes
28. Wiretapping phones
29. Cutting off internet access
30. Banning WeChat and Weibo accounts
Collective Punishment of Family Members
31. Threatening family members’ jobs
32. Revoking children's right to education
33. Restricting family members from traveling abroad
34. Frequent police visits to harass family members
35. Holding family members hostage as leverage
36. Beating and intimidating family members
37. Forcing family members to make public “confessions”
38. Coercing relatives to cut ties with dissidents
39. Freezing family assets
40. Extending persecution to three generations (as in the Cultural Revolution)
Media Smear Campaigns
41. Defamation through state media
42. Fabricating false scandals
43. Forcing public confessions on television
44. Using “experts” to criticize dissidents
45. Spreading fake news to mislead the public
46. Censoring dissidents' information on search engines like Baidu
47. Deleting positive social media comments about dissidents
48. Making dissidents’ names sensitive keywords
49. Using animations and comics to ridicule dissenters
50. Smearing overseas human rights organizations
Social Blacklisting
51. Banning dissidents from employment
52. Revoking lawyers’ licenses
53. Freezing bank accounts
54. Denying passport applications and international travel
55. Evicting dissidents and confiscating property
56. Placing them on the "social credit blacklist"
57. Banning dissidents from high-speed rail and flights
58. Pressuring employers to fire dissidents
59. Denying medical services
60. Blocking access to bank loans
Repression Abroad
61. Cross-border kidnappings of dissidents (e.g., Gui Minhai case)
62. Using embassies to pressure foreign governments
63. Sending agents to intimidate exiles
64. Creating “accidents” or “suicides” overseas
65. Hiring criminal gangs for violent attacks
66. Spreading rumors and disinformation about exiles online
67. Harassing the families of exiled dissidents
68. Collaborating with foreign governments to repatriate dissidents
69. Revoking the Chinese nationality of exiles
70. Infiltrating overseas universities and Chinese communities to monitor dissenters
Persecution of Specific Groups
71. Persecuting lawyers
72. Suppressing Tibetans (restricting religious freedom)
73. Targeting Christians (demolishing churches, arresting pastors)
74. Cracking down on business leaders
75. Suppressing democracy advocates
76. Persecuting human rights activists
77. Targeting environmental activists
78. Repressing Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement (via the National Security Law)
79. Persecuting citizen journalists (e.g., Zhang Zhan case)
80. Targeting university students with dissenting views
Economic Suppression
81. Cutting off corporate sponsorships for dissidents
82. Freezing dissidents' assets
83. Confiscating property
84. Threatening employers of dissidents
85. Forcing evictions through land seizures
86. Using tax investigations to suppress business owners who are dissenters
87. Restricting income opportunities for human rights lawyers
88. Preventing families from accessing pensions
89. Imposing illegal fines
90. Banning the publication of dissidents’ books and works
Psychological Warfare
91. Long-term house arrest
92. Staging “accidental deaths”
93. Forcing dissidents to watch propaganda videos
94. Inducing “suicides”
95. Orchestrating prison conflicts to incite violence against dissidents
96. Threatening children’s safety
97. Pretending to grant leniency before re-arresting
98. Coercing dissidents into signing repentance statements
99. Offering bribes to turn dissidents against their cause
100. Subjecting dissidents to prolonged psychological torture, leading to self-doubt
