Ripples of political dissent continued to appear in China in the wake of the “Bridge Man” protest against ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping, who is on track to sweep aside term limits and rule for at least another five years at the ongoing party congress in Beijing.
Shanghai-based retired teacher Gu Guoping, 67, was incommunicado, believed detained, on Oct. 16, with repeated calls from RFA to his cell phone and social media accounts going unanswered.
The rights group Weiquanwang said officers from Shanghai’s Zhoujiaqiao police station under the Changning district police department detained Gu at a friend’s house after threatening to use “coercive measures.”
Police said they were planning to take both Guo and his friend to Lingang, a “ghost city” on the coast near Shanghai once touted as its answer to Silicon Valley.
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