Xi Jinping’s China, home of house arrest

OIt looks like the incipit of Kafka’s Trial. On July 22, 2019, without warning, men came to pick up Shi Minglei and her husband from their home in Changsha, central China. Their supposed crime, “subversion against state power,” is the joker that the Chinese Communist Party always draws against even the most insignificant activists. A disproportionate club, compared to the activities of the couple, the husband of Shi, Cheng Yuan, being only the founder of Changsha Funeng, a small local organization of fight against discrimination of the patients of the AIDS and hepatitis B.

After a night at the police station, where she had been taken hooded and handcuffed, Shi Minglei was placed under house arrest, her husband remaining incarcerated. Employee of a company…