Uttering ‘Tuidang’ in China Can Get You Arrested

The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t recognize the “Tuidang” movement, yet many people have faced arrests in the movement to withdraw from the Party.

ong Yi, chairperson of the Tuidang Center (L), presents a certificate to a Chinese student during a rally near the United Nations in New York on Sept. 28, 2014. Many Chinese people risk arrest for taking part in the Tuidang movement. Edward Dai/Epoch Times

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) doesn’t acknowledge the existence of the Tuidang Movement—the grass-roots movement born in 2004 that helps Chinese quit the Communist Party and its affiliated organizations. Yet China’s security apparatus will take away those who distribute or possess Tuidang material, or even talk about it to others.

The authorities will usually confiscate the “quitting the CCP” material from the mainland Tuidang volunteers and sentence them to lengthy jail terms. A sampling of cases follows.