You will never know peace. You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself. But wherever you go, you will find yourself. You will torment yourself until your last day on Earth,"
This is not "criticism".
In any country on Earth, sending this to a senior law-enforcement official would not end with a polite request to fill out a voluntary statement form.
The man got the softest possible visit from the security state and came away narrating it like a dissident memoir.
Also, for better or worse, the "check" these days allegedly happens more commonly by hacking into the person's devices to monitor them for a while.
The man's right to petition his government was harmed. And did he have to petition in this way? Yes, he absolutely did, for they listen to nothing else.