[net-gold] COUNTRIES: CHINA : LAW: CASE: DECISIONS : CENSORSHIP: A Crusader Against Corruption, Chinese Activist Sentenced To Jail
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- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:10:41 -0500 (EST)
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COUNTRIES: CHINA :
LAW: CASE: DECISIONS :
CENSORSHIP:
A Crusader Against Corruption, Chinese Activist Sentenced To Jail
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A Crusader Against Corruption, Chinese Activist Sentenced To Jail
by Anthony Kuhn
January 26, 201412:02 PM
NPR
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/26/266476486/
a-crusader-against-corruption-chinese-activist-sentenced-to-jail
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http://tinyurl.com/mz5mdhb
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China's government has recently jailed officials and issued a slew of new
rules to curb corruption, but it's apparently not an effort that
independent citizens groups are welcome to join.
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On Sunday, a Chinese court sentenced Xu Zhiyong, a leading proponent of
civil society, to four years in jail. Police have also arrested around a
dozen other members of his group, called the New Citizens' Movement.
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The court found 40-year-old Xu Zhiyong guilty of assembling a crowd to
disturb public order during protests he organized outside the Ministry of
Education in 2012, pressing for migrants' equal access to education.
Prosecutors say the protesters obstructed police and made a racket.
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Xu's lawyer, Zhang Qingfang, says that's not true.
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"The protests were perfectly orderly," he says. "The police couldn't find
a single citizen who said the protests disturbed their lives."
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Xu is a soft-spoken legal scholar and activist, who has campaigned for
families of children sickened by tainted milk. He's spoken out for
citizens caught in extra-legal detention centers. Most recently, he's
called for officials to publicize their assets.
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China: Reverse Judgment in Show Trial of Xu Zhiyong
Trend of Cases Against Activists in Broad Crackdown on Dissent
January 26, 2014
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/01/25/
china-reverse-judgment-show-trial-xu-zhiyong
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http://tinyurl.com/q7k4rea
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(New York) The conviction and four-year sentence of Xu Zhiyong, one of
Chinas preeminent rights advocates, for gathering crowds to disturb social
order is a pretext to chill popular protests against corruption, Human
Rights Watch said today.
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News of the trial has been censored, as has reporting by foreign media on
how relatives of top leaders keep offshore accounts to hold unexplained
wealth.
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Xu, age 40, became prominent for his role in organizing nonviolent
protests against corruption and discrimination in education under the
banner of the New Citizens Movement. Chinese courts have tried two other
activists in the New Citizens Movement in the past week, including Zhao
Changqing and Hou Xin. Ding Jiaxi, Li Wei, Yuan Dong and Zhang Baocheng
are scheduled to be tried on January 27.
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Three others were tried in December but no verdict has yet been released.
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The harsh sentence for a moderate critic who reflected widespread public
concern about corruption shows just how little tolerance there is towards
dissent in China today, said Brad Adams, Asia Director. Xi Jinping has
made fighting corruption the linchpin of his presidency, but when an
average citizen takes up the same cause, he is sent to prison. This
hypocrisy makes a mockery of the presidents anti-corruption campaign.
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China placed Xu under house arrest in April 2013. Police took him into
custody on July 16 and formally arrested him on August 2. The police
transferred Xus case to the procuratorate on December 4.
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Xus trial at Beijing No.1 Intermediate Peoples Court began on January 22,
2014, and was based on charges that Xu had organized and incited
disruptions in front of the Ministry of Education and other locations. The
charges said that protestors had defied and obstructed officers in charge
of public safety trying to carry out their duties. The charges claim
protesters unfurled banners, made a racket and created serious chaos.
Because the circumstances are serious and he was a ringleader, Xu was
given a four-year sentence out of a maximum of five.
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At his trial only two family members were allowed to attend the hearing in
a very small courtroom. No journalists were allowed in. A group of foreign
diplomats were able to enter the court building but were not allowed to
attend the hearing.
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