- Exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui shared tips for how protesters can deal with police questioning.
- Guo posted his tips on Gettr, the social media site relaunched by a former Donald Trump aide.
An exiled Chinese billionaire has told protesters in China how they can hinder interrogation by police in a post on the social media platform Gettr.
Guo Wengui, who is also a political activist, shared the tips in a post on Tuesday.
He first reminded followers that police needed evidence to prosecute them, but that was not the case if they made confessions. He told people they had the right to ask the police to record their entire interviews.
Guo, also known by the names Miles Guo and Miles Kwok, told people to say that photographs or videos of protests were "too blurry" to confidently identify individuals.
"When answering questions, try not to involve irrelevant others. Answers like 'I don't know', 'I can't remember clearly', and 'I have no impression' are the best answers for you and others," Guo said in the post.
Protests erupted against the Chinese government in opposition to its zero-COVID policies in recent days and have since spread to cities including Shanghai and Beijing over the weekend. Some protesters clashed with local police.
At least one protester has been arrested and some people have been questioned by police in phone calls, The Guardian reported.
Guo encouraged people to not sign an interview transcript if it was "inconsistent" with what the person said. He went on to list tricks he said police commonly used, such as partially recording an interview, threatening arrestees with prison terms, and torture or beatings.
The final tip he shared included telling protest participants that the likelihood of getting sentenced to prison "is very small" and that the maximum detention period was limited to 15 days.
Gettr is a social media app that was previously in Chinese and used by dissidents to oppose the Chinese Communist Party, according to Politico. A year after the Guo-linked site was launched, it was revamped by Donald Trump's former aide Jason Miller, per the report.
Guo was accused of corruption and fled to the US in 2014 as the Chinese government initiated a campaign to discredit him. The CCP asked Interpol to issue a red notice and label him as a criminal suspect.
Guo did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.