给BBC写信让他身陷囹圄

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BBC Chinese, Sept 24, 2017
www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/world-41349131

, which is translated from

Abby d'Arcy, The German Schoolboy Jailed for Writing to the BBC. BBC, Sept 17, 2017.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41283012
("18-year-old Karl-Heinz Borchardt * * * in Greifswald, a small town on Germany's northern coastline. * * * The London-based presenter of Letters without Signatures, Austin Harrison, announced different postal addresses every few weeks at the end of the show * * * Austin Harrison was the only presenter on the show for its 25-year run * * * In the end it was the letter writers they [Stasi] really knuckled down on, and the Stasi were extraordinarily fastidious in their pursuit. * * * It was his handwriting that caught out Borchardt. * * * On arrival at Rostock Stasi prison, he was stripped and searched and put in isolation. * * * Then quite abruptly, in 1974, 'Letters without Signatures' was taken off the air by the BBC.  The number of letters had reduced, according to former producer Günter Burkart. Maybe because more were intercepted by the Stasi, but he suggests the foreign office may have had a hand in it.  'Perhaps it was thought with diplomatic relations coming up and recognition of the GDR, it was time to end it,' he says. * * * It was only after the collapse of communism and the reunification of Germany in 1989, that he [Borchardt] was able to start working as an academic at the University of Greifswald.  He is still lecturing in German literature there today")

Note:
(a)
(i) Darcy (surname)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcy_(surname)
(Darcy/d'Arcy is a surname from the Norman barony of d'Arcy)
(ii) Pride and Prejudice (Fitzwilliam Darcy, generally referred to as Mr Darcy, is a romantic interest of Elizabeth Bennet, the novel's protagonist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Darcy
(iii) Thomas Christopher Banks, The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England; Or, An historical and genealogical account of the lives, public employments, and most memorable actions of the English nobility who have flourished from Norman Conquest to the year 1806: deduced from public records, anceint historians, the works of eminent heralds and from other celebrated and approved authorities. London: J White (publisher), 1808, at page 143
https://books.google.com/books?i ... ge&q=Norman%20d
("DARCY, or D'ARCIE[:] This ancient family is said to be descended from Norman D'Arcie, or D'Areci, who came into England with the Conqueror")

(b) Greifswald
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greifswald

(c) "In the end it was the letter writers they [Stasi] really knuckled down on, and the Stasi were extraordinarily fastidious in their pursuit."
(i) Stasi is German for Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS)
(ii) Why plural form here?  I check online dictionaries for "Stasi" and none say whether it is singular or plural. But see

Singular or Plural. The Economist, undated
www.economist.com/style-guide/singular-or-plural
(collective nouns)

(A) At Sixes and Sevens. The Phrase Finder, undated.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/sixes-and-sevens.html
(B)"Police" is also a collective noun.
(iii) knuckle down: "get down to work and apply oneself earnestly to it"
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/knuckle-down.html

(d) "It was his handwriting that caught out Borchardt.

catch someone out (phrasal verb): "detect that someone has done something wrong or made a mistake. <his tone suggested he'd caught her out in some misdemeanour>"https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/catch_someone_out

(e) Rostock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostock
(f) from the Web: "The United Kingdom established diplomatic relations with the German Democratic Republic in 1973"