According to a source with their circumstances, a young Chinese woman who was detained following a nonviolent demonstration against covid-19 limitations in Beijing last year has been released together with a number of her companions. They spent four months in police jail.
A few days before she was arrested, Cao Zhixin, a 26- year- old publishing company editor, made a video as she learned that her friends had been arrested one by one after they had joined a vigil to remember losses they believed were caused by China’s now- scrapped zero- covid policy.
According to a source with direct information, Cao was freed on wed night. The source learned of their predicament from mutual contacts that three of her pals who were imprisoned around the same time in December had also been freed. Both the specifics of their release and the existence of any outstanding charges were unclear at the time.
When CNN called for a statement, the police in Beijing’s Chaoyang districts thought to be in charge of the cases, hung up, and a fax to the bureau was unsuccessful. The fax sent by CNN to the Beijing municipal police department was similarly unsuccessful.
The women were among eight individuals- mostly young, professional women quietly imprisoned by officials in the weeks after the non-violent demonstration in the Chinese capital on November 27. CNN confirmed this in January
