“Picking up Xi Dada’s wife” in WeChat
Chinese netizen is arrested and now missing

A netizen in Guangdong province was trying to flirt with the first lady of China, leaving a message of “picking up Xi Dada’s wife” in WeChat, which caused himself trouble. According to the internal notice of the internet police of Public Security Bureau in Meizhou, Mr Xu, who named himself “A Fengshun CheungKee Hairy Crab” on the internet, has been arrested. The whereabout of this netizen is unknown until now (07-Jan).

According to the notice, a message of “Picking up Xi Jinping’s wife” in WeChat, posted by a netizen in Tangkeng city in Fengshun province, was reported. Informed by the Public Security Bureau, internet police have started an investigation. By following the rule of “Cracking down messages related to politic rumours”, the netizen was arrested. In the notice, the real name of the netizen is Xu Yi Xiang. His identity card, phone number and home address is disclosed. The authority claimed that they will further investigate on the arrestee to see if there is any political purpose, and if there is a usage of VPNs.

Mr You, a Chinese social media inspector, told the Radio Free Asia that the main task of the public security system now is to defend on the rumours, slander and malicious speech about politicians, especially related to the leaders of Zhongnanhai (Central and Southern Seas) in China. All these messages in social medial must be eliminated immediately once it is found. In the meantime, netizens who expressed dissatisfaction will be arrested, in order to warn the rest of the public not to tell jokes about politicians. Seniors of CCP are extremely sensitivity to the jokes about politicians. “Xi DaDa” and “Peng MaMa” are the honorific nicknames given by the netizens to XI Jinping and Peng Liyuan respectively. Seniors of CCP would not tolerate any jokes told on the honorific names of politicians because they believe the credibility and prestige of politician will be downgraded.

Mr. You also mentioned that Public Security Bureau in different provinces can detain any person immediately without any investigation when sensitive messages is found. In the past, a person who violated the rule would be invited to the Bureau for “tea”. However, people will be caught by administrative detention without writing a guarantee letter.

Regarding to the case of the netizen “A Fengshun CheungKee Hairy Crab” trying to flirt the first lady of China, Radio Free Asia have contacted the Public Security Bureau in Meizhou city and Fengshun province. Both authorities claimed to let the public relation team of them to respond. Mr. Xu is still missing now.

China is recently in strict surveillance for “openly discussing party policy” in the internet, especially those comments related to the General Secretary of CCP, Xi Jinping. In July 2017, a netizen in Hainan was in administrative detention for 10 days because he left a message saying “How’s Xi, the pig head, doing lately?”

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Source: Apple Daily TW (07-Jan)
https://tw.appledaily.com/new/realtime/20200107/1687520/