One of China’s “Feminist Five” group of women who were arrested for campaigning against sexual harassment has been barred from leaving the country for a decade, in the latest example of Beijing’s ever-tightening grip on civil society.
Wu Rongrong, one of the five students arrested two years ago, is set to miss her enrolment for a law degree at a Hong Kong university because of the travel ban, which activists say breaks the record for the longest single injunction handed down in such cases.
Ms Wu said she was denied a travel permit by state security officers in Shanxi, the province of her household registration. The authorities cited unresolved legal cases against Ms Wu as the reason for the travel ban.