Here's What The Chinese Government Does To Its Citizens Who Speak Out Against Them

Surveillance cameras in front of a giant portrait of Mao Zedong in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 2009. Jason Lee/Reuters

Business Insider: Barging into your home, threatening your family, or making you disappear: Here's what China does to people who speak out against them

The Chinese Communist Party has long sought to suppress ideas that could undermine the sweeping authority it has over its 1.4 billion citizens — and the state can go to extreme lengths to maintain its grip.

In just the past few years, the government has attempted to muzzle critics by making them disappear without a trace, ordering people to physically barge into their houses, or locking up those close to critics as a kind of blackmail.

Even leaving China isn't always enough. The state has continued to clamp down on dissent by harassing and threatening family members who remain in the country.

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WNU Editor: I have been a "China Watcher" since the early 1980s, and I have never seen it as bad as it is now.I do not know when it will happen, but one day there is going to be blow-back against this repression.

Hat tip Fred for this link.

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