In early September, the Justice Department of Shandong province notified Zhu Shengwu, a 36-year-old lawyer in Jinan, the provincial capital, that his “anti-Communist Party, anti-socialism” expressions online had “threatened national security.” He was disbarred. 

(Comments: Zhu Shengwu heads the Shandong Xinchang Law Firm which he founded about a year ago. He has been practicing for around five years, specializing in intellectual property rights, particularly online copyright disputes. Beginning this year, he began taking on so-called “sensitive cases” – i.e., involving human rights.)