Photo by Ng Han Guan: Yang Guoliang shows a March 12, 2024, photo of him lying in a hospital bed after police beat him with bricks, as he sits in his home in Changzhou in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025

Part of the AP’s photo essay: Those caught in the dragnet of China’s digital cage enabled by U.S. tech

More information available in accompanying article: US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China