Censorship Vault features previously untranslated propaganda instructions from the archives of the CDT series Directives from the Ministry of Truth (真理部指令).
State Council Information Office: All websites and interactive [website] sections are asked to thoroughly delete harmful information related to Fang Lizhi. Implement this immediately. (April 7, 2012)
国新办：所有网站和各互动环节，请全面删除有关方励之的有害信息，立即执行。
Fang Lizhi, a prominent astrophysicist who spent over a year at the US embassy in Beijing after supporting the student protesters at Tiananmen, passed away on April 6, 2012.
Translation by Mengyu Dong.
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