An outspoken former communist school professor has discovered her Chinese bank account has been closed, just weeks after she was ousted from the China’s Communist Party for criticizing President Xi Jinping.

Cai Xia tweeted on Monday that when her family members recently tried to withdraw money from her bank account, they were notified that the account was closed on Aug. 20, three days after her party membership was stripped.

When Cai, a former professor at China’s elite Central Party School now living in self-exile in the United States, was ousted from the party on Aug. 17, she was told that her pensions would be cancelled.

“But now not only the pensions, I can’t even take my savings out. I thought they wanted me to be in hunger and illness, but now I understand they wanted me to die. People cannot never imagine how evil the Xi Communist Party can be,” she said.

Cai was from a family of top Communist Party members. But her speeches criticizing Xi as a “mafia boss” and slamming him as “utterly stupid” saw her expelled from the party.

Cai previously said she had worked for 43 years and it was her right to enjoy her pensions. She threatened to file a lawsuit to regain them.

Some netizens replied to her saying they were shocked that Cai did not take her money out before condemning the party.

“You are now truly a proletariat,” one commentator said.

“This is a fight of life and death to the party. There are no boundaries. Winning is the only goal,” said another netizen.

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