China uses COVID19 quarantines as cover to detain dissidents, activists say | via nytimes
On the day of his release from prison, Wang Quanzhang, one of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers, thought he was finally free.
Before the pandemic, China had already mounted an intensive crackdown on human rights, which many activists have described as the most aggressive since the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. “These people are clearly not in any condition that needs to be quarantined,” Wang said. “It’s not science-based; it’s just an excuse for the government to restrict their movements and suppress their speech.”
In the central province of Hubei, the police said that prisoners who complete their jail terms needed to be released within 24 hours, according to Shanghai Observer, a state-controlled news website. No one took his temperature during the 14-day quarantine, Jiang said. Officials initially asked him to pay the $17 a day charge for the quarantine, he said, but he refused.
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