p2pnet - rss feed: China reporter jailed for 2 years
p2p news / p2pnet: Chinese authorities “kidnapped” the wife of Li Yuanlong, held her for 10 days, and arrested his 16-year-old son to force Li to write his ‘confession’ in which he admitted, “defaming the socialist system,” says Reporters Without Borders.
A journalist with the Bijie Ribao daily, Li has been jailed for two years for allegedly, “inciting subversion of the state” in articles he posted online, says the story.
“Li just did his job as a journalist by reporting on the hardships experienced by the poorest sectors of the population in the Chinese countryside,” states RWB. “He even raised funds to enable children to go back to school. It is an outrage that a person of such courage and integrity is being sent to prison.”
The activist organization says Chinese authorities took Li’s family hostage to force him write a confession.
“Li’s lawyer, Li Jianqiang, said today on 64Tianwang, ‘The verdict and the entire judicial procedure are completely senseless’," acknowledging the sentence was relatively light, " compared with other similar cases” but that he’d discuss the possibility of an appeal with the family.
He was finally formally charged on February 9, “but then his trial was postponed three times,” says the report. “According to a journalist writing for Boxun, the Guizhou Public Security Bureau needed all this time to prepare a case against him.”
Li Yuanlong, "interviewed many poor children who were not getting any schooling,” his wife said last January. “The publication of his reports had a big impact and helped collect fund to pay for them to go back to school (…) The local party nonetheless banned him from publishing his interviews, accusing him of showing society in a negative light.”
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Also See:
Reporters Without Borders - Journalist Li Yuanlong gets two years in prison for “subversive” Internet articles, July 13, 2006
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July 14th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
If you’re Chinese, and you’re reading this, then I am OKing you to eliminate everyone who is an oppressor. Fight your way towards democracy.
July 15th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
But just make sure that it’s a little better than the type of democracy that most of us in the west ‘enjoy’. In the U.K. (as in several other countries) democracy has come to mean a heads you lose, tales they win type of democracy - you don’t want this!
July 16th, 2006 at 6:14 am
The gov’t of China routinely live-harvests the organs of anyone who is deemed to be subversive. I shit you not.
Don’t believe me?
http://www.theepochtimes.com/211,111,,1.html
Happens thousands of times every year to Falungong, Christians, or any people who oppose the ruling party. People routinely fly to China from Canada to buy the harvested organs and end up showing back up in Canada at the hospital with a mystery liver/kidney/etc that they usually eventually admit to buying in China. (Those people should be prosecuted severely IMO.)
The funny part is, the vast majority of people in China are so fucking stupid and brainwashed that they actually support their gov’ts actions. Good luck finding freedom from within a group of weak low-IQ sheeple.
July 16th, 2006 at 6:15 am
BTW that link doesn’t work unless you cut and paste the whole thing