I mean, without her glasses, she could not see anything actually. And Wei Tingting, whom you mentioned at first, was the woman who had the worst eyesight. Four of the five women who were jailed wore glasses, and the first thing that the security agents did with these women when they were detained was to confiscate their glasses, which was extremely disorienting. Well, I write in quite a lot of detail about the experiences in detention of the five young women who ended up being known as the Feminist Five, and I don’t think I want to go into too great detail, but I do want to highlight some things. A lot of people are very closely monitored by the Chinese government, and that’s how they found out.Īnd when these women were all brought to Beijing, what sort of interrogation did they undertake with these feminists?
The popular group messaging app, WeChat, it is used pretty much by everybody – or at least every young person in China almost – to communicate, and that app is very closely monitored by the authorities, particularly if you have been involved in any kind of activist – even if you haven’t been protesting, but if you’re just a person of interest.
Well, I mean, the Chinese authorities monitor social media very closely, not just social media, but there’s very heavy internet censorship in general. But they didn’t even get to carry out their activity because the round of arrests was carried out just a couple of days before International Women’s Day.Īnd how did the Chinese state authorities even know that there was some sort of protest being planned? These women had been planning to celebrate International Women’s Day by handing out anti-sexual harassment stickers on subways and buses. Some of the other women were in other cities, but they brought all of the women to Beijing and put them in the same detention center. And then they ended up focusing on five young women Wei Tingting was one of the five. And they arrested a number of feminist activists – anywhere from ten to a whole lot more than ten, actually. I mean there was actually a really sweeping round of arrests carried out by Chinese authorities in quite a few different cities at the same time. Can you describe what happened to Wei and why she was arrested? So on March 6, 2015, Wei Tingting was arrested in her home in China.
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