{"id":223130,"date":"2020-07-22T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=223130"},"modified":"2020-07-27T07:29:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T14:29:07","slug":"translation-lu-yuyus-incorrect-memory-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2020\/07\/translation-lu-yuyus-incorrect-memory-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Translation: Lu Yuyu’s “Incorrect Memory,” Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2016, citizen journalist Lu Yuyu and his girlfriend at the time Li Tingyu, were formally arrested<\/a> after having been detained for over a month<\/a>. The two had been chronicling “mass incidents”<\/a>\u2014the official name given to protests, riots, and other forms of social unrest\u2014across China on the “Not News” (\u975e\u65b0\u805e) blog <\/a>and @wickedonnaa Twitter account<\/a> since 2013. Reporters Without Borders awarded the detained Lu and Li a Press Freedom Prize<\/a> in 2016. While Li was reportedly tried in secret and released in April 2017, Lu was sentenced to four years in prison<\/a> that August for \u201cpicking quarrels<\/a>\u00a0and provoking trouble,\u201d\u00a0a catch-all charge frequently used to prosecute activists<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lu was released from prison last month<\/a>, four years after his initial apprehension in June 2016. He has detailed his experience in detention, and his opinion<\/a> that the option to document protests “no longer exists in China” in a recent interview with William Yang.<\/p>\n

On July 17, Lu shared the first entry of his account of his detention and treatment an Twitter:<\/p>\n

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— darkmamu (@darkmamu6) July 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n