Provides signal warnings about the degradation of human rights and human dignity and shows just how fragile those concepts are. This harrowing film uses case studies of two lawyers, a journalist, and their families, who have been targeted by the Chinese state for alleged subversive activities. The effects of this surveillance varied, from mere annoyance to interruption of the children’s schooling, all the way to detention and torture. These examples just scratch the surface of the nightmarish assaults on personal liberty exposed in the film.
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