Yu Menglong May Have Been Forced to Wear an Electronic Ankle Monitor Before His Death

Recently, some netizens uncovered a photo of Yu Menglong prior to his death, which appears to show bruises on his face. (Photo sourced from Weibo)

[People News] Three months have passed since the Yu Menglong case began, and netizens have uncovered more and more evidence suggesting that he was abused and tortured before his death. Earlier, we reported that Yu Menglong may have been wearing shackles for a long period. Now, new evidence further supports this claim.

After Yu Menglong passed away, netizens discovered that in public, he often wore shoes that did not fit—shoes noticeably larger than his actual size by an estimated one to three sizes. Seeing this unusual detail, even netizens couldn’t help but ask him, “Do you have shoes that actually fit you?”

At the end of November, netizens dug up another video showing clear ring-shaped marks around Yu Menglong’s ankles, leading to speculation that these marks were left by an electronic tracking ankle monitor.

In recent days, an astonishing screenshot of an online conversation surfaced. The screenshot shows that last April, some users were discussing electronic ankle monitors on a certain account. A netizen from Fujian suddenly commented, “Xu Xian is wearing an electronic ankle monitor now, you know.” A netizen from Hebei asked, “How do you know? Which ‘Xu Xian’ are you talking about?” After that, the Fujian netizen never replied. The account that revealed “Xu Xian is wearing an electronic ankle monitor” has now been deleted.

Yu Menglong played the role of Xu Xian in the 2019 adaptation of The Legend of White Snake. His habit of wearing oversized shoes, the ring-shaped marks on his ankles, and the frequent bulging under his pant legs all led netizens to believe that the Fujian netizen’s “Xu Xian” referred to Yu Menglong.

The reason Yu Menglong always wore oversized shoes, it turns out, may have been to make room for an electronic ankle monitor.

But some netizens questioned this, saying that electronic ankle monitors in China are strictly regulated tools used only under judicial supervision. They are criminal enforcement devices used exclusively by the judicial system. Without court documents, police registration, and a monitoring backend, it should be impossible for anyone to wear one. Therefore, they argued that it would be impossible for a person wearing an ankle monitor to freely travel around the country, film shows, record programs, give interviews, or perform on stage.

However, some netizens immediately found electronic ankle monitors available for purchase on online shopping platforms such as Alibaba.

Some netizens said that they originally doubted whether Yu Menglong had been wearing an electronic monitor, but now they believe it halfway—or more. “For the state to use its full power to torment a law-abiding, diligent, and kind person—this is truly hellish!”

The Yu Menglong case is suspected to involve Chinese Communist Party officials at the vice-national level or above, including Politburo Standing Committee member Cai Qi, Xi Jinping’s brother Xi Yuanping, and the family of former Premier Li Peng. With so many suspicious aspects, the Chaoyang Public Security Sub-Bureau in Beijing has persistently refused to file a case, violating a series of procedural requirements, because the protection umbrella is simply too powerful—pressure from the highest levels.

If the police can handle a person’s death so carelessly, treating the law like a joke, then Yu Menglong being forced to wear an ankle monitor during his lifetime is hardly surprising. In China, the law exists to restrain ordinary people.

However, the CCP repeatedly touts so-called “rule of law.” So what does “rule of law” actually look like under CCP governance?

Although the Chinese Constitution and the law contain phrases about fairness, justice, and even “protection of human rights,” after decades of nonstop political movements—the Great Leap Forward, the famine, the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong—how many people in China still believe those words?

Those who understand the CCP’s judicial corruption best are the personnel within the public security, procuratorate, courts, and justice system. They believe that the law exists to control and suppress the public, while they themselves, as “law enforcers” and “privileged persons,” use the “law” to strike others—never to restrain themselves.

Thus, in the eyes of CCP judicial personnel, legal compliance means little. They see internal directives and policies as more important than the law. They often ignore the law entirely, without considering whether something is legal or not. As long as they maintain good relations with their superiors, everything can be handled outside the law. But disobey your superiors, and the consequences are obvious. That is why unlawful behavior and corruption are so widespread within CCP institutions.

In mainland China, behind the façade of legal procedures in countless civil and criminal cases lie power-for-money deals—whoever has stronger connections, a bigger “backer,” or gives more gifts wins. Many Chinese citizens who have suffered from judicial corruption know this all too well, and those inside the system understand it even better.

Yu Menglong came from an ordinary family, with neither money nor connections. So after his mysterious death, the public watched as judicial personnel—who are supposed to be legal experts and models of lawfulness—acted like “legal illiterates,” while netizens were forced to play Sherlock Holmes, doing the police’s job for them.

If it can be proven that these perpetrators openly used electronic ankle monitors on Yu Menglong for a long time to illegally restrict his freedom, it would only show that they had long colluded with the police, acting together as accomplices and enforcers. The police are merely the hired muscle of CCP elites. And beyond Yu Menglong—who knows how many other disobedient people they have treated this way?

Therefore, unless the CCP is removed, “rule of law” will remain nothing more than a lie.

(People News exclusive)