Ji Xiaolong, a Chinese rights activist, has been tried for "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble" after he wrote to a Chinese leader criticizing the COVID-19 lockdown of spring 2022. Ji's trial follows a long line of COVID-19 dissidents who have faced the wrath of the government. Ji had called on Shanghai's ruling Communist Party secretary to resign for "blindly following orders from the central government" when implementing weeks of grueling lockdown. Ji has already served a three-and-a-half year jail term for writing political graffiti in a Shanghai public toilet.

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