Chinese Regime Censors Retired CCP Officials' Call for Freedom of Speech On YouTube.
The Chinese regime has censored an open letter published earlier this week calling for freedom of speech. The letter is signed by a group of former senior communist party officials and was sent to the regime's National People's Congress. It urges the de facto legislative body to dismantle the regime's censorship machine. Twenty three former senior Chinese Communist Party officials are calling on the ruling regime to allow freedom of speech and press in the country. But as soon as their letter was published, it's was removed from Chinese websites. The group of retired communist party elders, including the former publisher of the state-run People's Daily, sent the open letter on Monday to the regime's de facto legislative body. The letter urged the National People's Congress, or NPC, to uphold the constitution and abolish the country's system of censorship. The letter describes the regime's Central Propaganda Department as an "invisible black hand," and questions why it has the authority to censor recent calls by Premier Wen Jiabao for political reform. [Yu Meisun, Supporter of Open Letter]: "The Central Propaganda Department is firstly led by the Party Central, and cannot go above the Party Central. So the Communist Party's central has its own rules of operations. It does not really want to realize democracy or rule of law, and so it would of course suppress freedom of speech." One of the signatories of the open letter Xin Zhiling, former director of the editorial desk at ...
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