Words of the Week: “Being Traveled” (被旅游, bèi lǚyóu)

On June 4, Safeguard Defenders published a new report on the practice of “forced travel,” by which politically targeted individuals are removed from their home regions during sensitive periods. The report, Holidays in Handcuffs, is presented satirically in the form of a glossy travel magazine.

“Bei Zi Yuan” or “being volunteered” is one example which is used to ridicule some government departments that force people to do something while alleging they “do it out of their own will.”