From
Leah Sahay
If you type in the name Xu Zhiyong on the Chinese Internet, you won’t find much. Some old reports from 2014, about a previous arrest of the civil rights activist, in which the state press denounced him as a criminal, as a destroyer. Him of all people, Xu Zhiyong. The words democracy and activist are in quotation marks. Otherwise there is no trace of the life of the 50-year-old, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison earlier this week. There would be so much to tell.