They were told to write freely, without fear of official constraints or oversight.
Two Iranian academics, who would speak only anonymously for fear of official reprisals, said in telephone interviews that he had specialized in particle and theoretical physics.
"An Australian, for instance, could freely echo President [Abdel Fatah] al-Sisi of Egypt's warning that Islam needs a religious revolution without fear of official persecution or need of police protection," he said.
Officials in Chongqing were also told of Mr. Bo's improper relationships, as well as those of Wang Lijun, a former police chief, and Wu Wenkang, another Bo associate in the government, said the resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of a fear of official reprisal.
"We're disappointed, because it still feels so dangerous to follow in [Pu's] footsteps, to become a rights lawyer," said one, a young man in a black jacket who requested anonymity for fear of official reprisals. .
The shots seemed to confirm the worst fears of officials in the command center: that the guerrillas had begun to carry out their threats.
The idea that anything could be thought and said inside the novel — a garden where the great "Why?" hangs, unpicked, gloating in the free air — had, for me, an ironically symmetrical connection with the actual fears of official Christianity outside the novel: that, as Dostoyevsky put it, without God everything is permitted.
These included fears of official bodies and a lack of awareness of health care entitlements, where to find health care amenities and public transport routes.
That is precisely the fear of military officials concerning the vulnerability of soldiers.
As for the fear of "disintegration", officials are used to pooh-poohing the overheated fears of foreign doom-mongers.
