Shandong Zaozhuang rights defender Zhang Chao (Dharma name: Shi Daoguo) forcibly disappeared after taking photos at Tiananmen Square on June 4, adding a mourning poem, and posting it to his Moments

(Rights Defense Network Information Center report) June 5, 2026. This outlet has learned that Zhang Chao, a rights defender from Zaozhuang, Shandong (Dharma name: Shi Daoguo), went to Tiananmen Square on June 4, took photographs, added a mourning poem, and posted them to his Moments (which was blocked shortly afterward). It has been confirmed that in the early hours of today (June 5), he was taken away from Beijing by state security officers from Zaozhuang, Shandong, who led a team there. Zhang Chao is currently unreachable and is in a state of enforced disappearance.

Shi Daoguo (original name: Zhang Chao), male, born in 1970, Dharma name Shi Daoguo, is a rights defender from Zaozhuang, Shandong. He became politically aware while working in Beijing in his early years and spent many years promoting the idea of democracy online. In 2014, he was detained for 37 days for sending rights defenders in Beijing alerts about searches and arrests. He later shaved his head, entered monastic life, and traveled throughout the country. While practicing and studying Buddhism, he did not forget online civic enlightenment or helping fellow practitioners who had fallen on hard times, to the extent that he was expelled whenever he found a temple at which to stay. On July 24, 2019, Zhang Chao was arrested by the Shanting Branch of the Zaozhuang Municipal Public Security Bureau and was subsequently criminally detained on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.

This outlet will continue to follow Shi Daoguo's situation.