Legend of the Chinese 'Cyber Prometheus' of China's Great Firewall now Sentenced to prison, "Cyber Prometheus" the Beijing Olympics chief information security engineer taught how to safely jump over the CCP's "Great Firewall." | JAPAN-Forward

Ruan Xiaohuan is a Chinese dissident, blogger, and InfoSec specialist. In 2009, Ruan started a blog named ProgramThink on Blogger, covering various topics from network security, methods to bypass the internet blockade in mainland China, to his own political views and critics of the Chinese Communist Party and the government. He was captured on 10 May 2021, and then formally arrested on 17 June 2021, for ‘inciting subversion of state power’.

The case is due for a second-instance trial on May 22, but the Chinese government has prevented his family from appointing a lawyer for him. His wife would like people to pay more attention to the case.

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