“I’ve been warned not to talk about it,” the woman wrote, before revealing snippets of the day she says she was arrested for publishing gay erotica.

“I’ll never forget it - being escorted to the car in full view, enduring the humiliation of stripping naked for examination in front of strangers, putting on a vest for photos, sitting in the chair, shaking with fear, my heart pounding.”

The handle, Pingping Anan Yongfu, is among at least 8 in recent months which have shared accounts on Chinese social media platform Weibo of being arrested for publishing gay erotic fiction. As authors recounted their experiences, dozens of lawyers offered pro bono help.

At least 30 writers, nearly all of them women in their 20s, have been arrested across the country since February, a lawyer defending one told the BBC. Many are out on bail or awaiting trial, but some are still in custody. Another lawyer told the BBC that many more contributors were summoned for questioning.

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      Clearly, the BBC made it all up. Because it contradicts them. /s

      Literally the newest top-level comment right now.

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      You don’t even have to be charged with anything before ICE grabs you off the street at throws you in a van in the US…

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      Che Guevara, from Desalinas PFP, was also rather homophonic. I wouldn’t make it a point of purity testing. People in the past did things according to their time (not saying its justified).

      The .ml crew has enought to criticize today. Big part them being a different flavor of impiralism

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      It’s really weird and kinda reddit-like to see a human rights violation and twist the story to be about some online community.

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        “some” = the one that’s the basis of and technically closely tied to the one you’re using right now

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          Yes, that’s exactly what they’re talking about and you’re being extremely weird in making it a priority of discussion on something at best tangentially related.

          It’s just a straw man writ large because you’re miffed at another online argument you had somewhere else.