Headline : Quiet Mourning for Dissident Lin Zhao On 56th Anniversary Of Her Execution

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56 years after her wrongful execution, the poet-journalist turned dissident Lin Zhao is still mourned in China. Lin, a Peking University student persecuted during the anti-Rightist Campaign, was executed at the height of the Cultural Revolution on April 29, 1968. Lin had joined the Party in her teens but began to question Mao’s leadership. She was first arrested in 1958 in Beijing and then released for medical reasons. She was re-arrested in 1960 and spent the rest of her life in prison. Denied the use of pen and paper while incarcerated, Lin wrote hundreds of thousands of characters of poetry and political writing using her own blood as ink. Before her death, she asserted: “History will find me innocent.” In 1980, these words were vindicated when the Shanghai Higher People’s Court posthumously overturned her conviction. 

Her dissident poetry inspired the underground magazine “Spark” and continues to reverberate within China today. While Lin has been officially rehabilitated, public mourning for her remains politically sensitive (as it does for others, including late premier Li Keqiang earlier this April). Police have detained visitors to Lin’s grave on the anniversaries of her execution. The 2004 documentary “Searching for Lin Zhao’s Soul,” a film by the legendary documentarian Hu Jie, has also never been publicly shown in China. However, samizdat copies circulate online—and censors appear to leave them alone. On Weibo, a pirated version of the full documentary has accumulated over 150,000 views in the past few weeks. One of the top comments says, “I hope that in the future we can say farewell to ignorant dictatorship.” A number of other viewers commented on continued police surveillance of her grave. 

On WeChat, many public accounts shared public remembrances of Lin. The oft-censored account 玖奌杂货店 (Jiǔdiǎn záhuòdiàn) wrote that Lin’s unflagging commitment to speaking the truth inspires their writing: 

The documentarian filmmaker and activist Ai Xiaoming also published an interview with Lin’s former associate to WeChat: 

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