CRACKDOWN
Wang has received over 20 calls in recent days from protesters or people whose friends and relatives have been detained. Most detentions she was told about lasted under 24 hours.
Protesters who contacted Wang for help have been targeted too, she said.
In Shanghai, police have confiscated the phones of all those she was in touch with and who were summoned for questioning, "perhaps to extract all their data", she added.
Callers from Guangdong told Wang that their accounts on the encrypted Telegram messaging app were hacked after they registered ID documents with police en route to a protest.
Some friends of detained Beijing protesters also told her they saw their friends' Telegram accounts active while they were in custody, suggesting police may have been accessing them.
WIPING OUT THE EVIDENCE
Encrypted protesters' chat groups - only accessible in China with illegal VPN software - are on high alert for police infiltrators as news spreads of further arrests and intimidation.
Participants have been urging each other to wipe all evidence of the protests - including chat histories, videos and photos - from their phones in anticipation of police checks.
One Beijing resident told AFP that two friends who attended protests in Shanghai and Beijing were detained on Sunday (Nov 27) and Tuesday respectively.
The Shanghai protester was released on Monday evening but their phone remains in police hands, he said, asking to remain anonymous for safety reasons.
On highly surveilled Chinese social media apps, any users posting protest content can be easily tracked down as platforms require real-name registration.
"Phone and social media sweeps are likely ongoing in physical spaces and virtual communities," said Rui Zhong, a China analyst at the Wilson Center in Washington.
AFP journalists saw multiple police officers filming protesters with small handheld cameras at Sunday's Beijing rally.
One protester told AFP that she and five friends were called by local police after they attended Sunday's rally at a riverbank in the city's embassy district.
She later told AFP she was summoned to the police station Tuesday to write a declaration of what happened, but got turned away after not having a recent COVID-19 test result.
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