Singer Wu Hongfei who posted bomb threats online and triggered a debate about free speech in China was released from detention without criminal charges on Friday morning.
Wu has regained her freedom, but she has been forced to leave the apartment that she rented in Beijing, she said on Weibo this afternoon.
After 10 days in detention, Wu, the vocalist of an independent rock band who posted “I want to bomb the neighbourhood committee of Beijing Job Centre and the f***ing housing authority”, one day after an explosion at Beijing airport on July 20, has changed her angry rhetoric.
Her past Weibo posts show that she was frustrated by the government agencies when dealing with her daily affairs. Posts also show that her singing career has stalled, her band lacks money and she can’t be with the boy she loves. Also, she has a bad relationship with her landlord and she even wrote a blog post titled “how to kill the landlord” years ago.