2 Exiled Chinese Bloggers Warn of Police Interrogating Their Followers

FILE- Wang Zhi'an speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2022. Wang, as well as artist-turned-dissident Li Ying, said in separate posts Feb. 25, 2024, that police were interrogating people who followed them on social media.

Two prominent Chinese bloggers in exile said that police were investigating their millions of followers on international social media platforms, in an escalation of Beijing’s attempts to clamp down on critical speech even outside of the country’s borders.