Some Chinese students in Canada accuse Beijing of targeting them and their families back in China with online threats and harassment — part of a campaign to crack down on anti-government dissent abroad.
Ruohui Yang is one of those students. He said he came to Canada in 2015 when he was 15 years old because his parents wanted him to study abroad.
In Canada, he said, he began learning things about his home country — such as details of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre — that challenged the Chinese government’s version of events.
“In mainland China, we have our very own way of describing this event, this massacre. We just claimed that this is not a massacre, not so much people died,” Yang told CBC’s The House.
“I start to realize … this [protest] movement got the support of pretty much the entire nation, even officers, police, some from the army, some from the government. And everyone was talking about freedom, democracy, a new …