European researchers raise alarm over China's attempts to suppress criticism
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Updated: May 10, 2021 06:47 IST
Brussels [Belgium], May 10 (ANI): Some of Europe's China researchers have raised alarm over the repeated efforts of Chinese organisations to stifle criticism as Beijing seeks to aggressively crackdown on findings that cast the country in an unflattering light.
South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that Slovakian academic Matej Simalcik received threatening mails from Luboslav Stora, the director of China-backed Confucius Institute in Bratislava. One of them said: "Are you sleeping well? You should be in very big stress, when you are walking down the street..."
"Be Patient. Big Brother is watching you," read a second mail, sent the next day.