In June 2020, Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong were transferred to the Linshu Detention Center in Linyi, where they continued to suffer physical and mental abuse. They were not allowed to see their lawyers until January 2021. After they did, their lawyers were forced to sign confidentiality agreements that forbade them from copying case files, discussing case details, doing interviews with the media, or speaking publicly about their cases. In August 2021 the two were both formally indicted on the “crime” of subversion of state power.
At a time when the Chinese people are supposed to gather with family and friends, these two good men — two sons, husbands, fathers, and friends to many — are languishing in prison, deprived of any communication with loved ones. While the Chinese Communist regime and its leader, Xi Jinping, are putting on a self-servingly grandiose nationalist show at the Winter Olympics, these two true patriots, who represent the best that Chinese citizens can be and should be, are suffering unspeakable tortures for their love for their country and their people.
This is as far from the Olympic spirit as it is possible to imagine.
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