Post calling for Bó Xīlái release deleted
May 20, 2013, China Media Project The following Sina Weibo post calling for the release of former ousted Party leader Bó Xīlái (薄熙来) was deleted sometime before 1:48 pm yesterday, May 19, 2013. [More on deleted posts at the WeiboScope Search, by the Journalism and Media Studies Centre]. The image accompanying the post shows two children looking at a red poster held by a group of Chinese protesters. White characters on the image read: “Give me back Bó Xīlái!” 
One of the Sina Weibo users reposting the image writes: “These two kids are really cute. Let us together support Bó Xīlái!”. Another user writes: “Free him!”.
NOTE: All posts to The Anti-Social List are listed as “permission denied” in the Sina Weibo API, which means they were deleted by Weibo managers, not by users themselves. |
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