China: wife of dissident poet under surveillance
Event- Country
- China
- Initial Date
- Mar 5, 2023
- Event Description
Wang Zang and Wang Li previously lived at Beijing’s Songzhuang artists’ village, and had been targeted with repeated forced evictions for showing online support for the 2014 Occupy Central pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
Wang Li had several episodes of mental illness as a result of the evictions, including a spell in a psychiatric hospital and reported suicidal thoughts, friends told RFA at the time.
Beijing-based housing rights activist Ni Yulan said Wang Li has been left providing and caring for four children while Wang Zang is in prison.
“The fact that they resorted to threats to get Wang Li to delete video showing her current situation shows that they are the culpable ones,” Ni said.
“What is their ulterior motive here?”
- Impact of Event
- 2
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Woman
- Violation
- Intimidation and Threats
- Restrictions on Movement
- Surveillance
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of movement
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to privacy
- HRD
- Pro-democracy defender
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Government
- Police
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 25.048876433932822
Longitude: 101.53619700469856
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 5 March 2023, Wang Li, wife of dissident poet Wang Zang and former political prisoner herself, was threatened not to go out and placed under tight surveillance by the police and local administrators as part of China’s “stability maintenance” program during the National People's Congress in Chuxiong municipality, China.
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