reply to post by biggie smalls
Here is an update to this story I posted a few months ago.
Chinese activist Hu Jia jailed ahead of Olympics: lawyer
This man's trial has ended and he is going to jail...
Activist Hu Jia was on Thursday jailed for three years and six months for subversion, his lawyer said, amid what rights groups charge is a
campaign by China to silence dissent before the Olympics.
The United States and the European Union immediately spoke out in defence of Hu, who became the second Chinese dissident in less than two weeks to be
jailed after using the Beijing Olympics to highlight human rights problems in China.
This man is intentionally being jailed so the other human rights groups in China will think twice before making a scene when the Olympics roll by.
This is intimidation at its finest, and no amount of Chinese propaganda, whether on ATS or the Chinese media, can quell this uprising.
The Chinese Communist Government is corrupt and shall fail soon thanks to its own people!
Hu, for many years one of China's highest-profile human rights campaigners, was found guilty at a Beijing court of "incitement to subvert state
power" following a one-day trial last month, lawyer Li Fangping said.
Li said the subversion charge had related to the 34-year-old Hu posting articles on the Internet about human rights issues and speaking with
foreign reporters.
"The evidence was publishing articles on websites outside of China and accepting interviews with the foreign press," Li said outside the court,
adding he believed the verdict was unjust and he would advise his client to appeal.
Subversion is pretty much treason in this case. He did nothing wrong. He acted as any sane human being should, expose a government as the bag of
snakes it is.
He is in jail right now for
speaking out against his government. In the US we still have the freedom to speak, but that too is being taken
away.
The next step with our surveillance in this country would be to end the people who speak out against the government.
Well, I see China as our "big brother" in surveillance and travesties. They are one step ahead of us. If we go down their road, we surely will
become statist. The corporations will own the government, or the government will own the corporations. Its really a matter of whether we want to be
commies or fascists.
You pick.
China's official Xinhua news agency carried a small article saying that Hu had confessed to his crime.
"Hu spread malicious rumours and committed libel in an attempt to subvert the state's political power and socialist system," Xinhua said, citing
the court verdict.
Obviously this man alone could not subvert the state's power or system. He is simply not that important.
He has been made a scape goat by the establishment to make others cringe at the thought of dissent.
If anyone should have been invaded, China seems to be a potential target (although it will pretty much never happen). Our economy may collapse, but
maybe people in the East will be free. We invaded Iraq under less pretenses by the way...
Hu's wife, Zeng Jinyan, 24, who recently gave birth to their first child and is also a prominent rights activist, said the verdict was the
culmination of four years of harassment by authorities.
"He's been put under surveillance, been kidnapped. He's been put under house arrest and now they have sentenced him to three and a half years,"
Zeng told reporters outside the courthouse as she broke down in tears.
"This is irrational and unfair."
His family is suffering because of the Chinese government's punitive and criminal tactics. If anyone should be jailed, it should be President Hu
(same name yes, but completely different viewpoint on life). He has a newborn child for chrissakes.
In one article he wrote with fellow activist and lawyer Teng Biao last year that was recently published by Human Rights Watch, Hu called on
visitors coming to Beijing for the Olympics not to be fooled by the trappings of development.
"You will see skyscrapers, spacious streets, modern stadiums and enthusiastic people. You will see the truth, but not the whole truth, just as you
see only the tip of an iceberg," the pair wrote.
"You may not know that the flowers, smiles, harmony and prosperity are built on a base of grievances, tears, imprisonment, torture and
blood."
Hu's truth will get out, in China and the world. We will not let you suffer in vain.
Hu's verdict followed a jail sentence handed down on March 24 to Yang Chunlin, a former factory worker, on similar subversion charges.
Yang, 52, was detained after he collected more than 10,000 signatures for a petition entitled: "We want human rights, not the Olympics".
WE WANT HUMAN RIGHTS, NOT THE OLYMPICS. I wonder how the Chinese propagandists are going to spin this one.
I think I just found a new slogan Hu, thanks buddy.
WE WANT HUMAN RIGHTS, NOT THE OLYMPICS
WE WANT HUMAN RIGHTS, NOT THE OLYMPICS
WE WANT HUMAN RIGHTS, NOT THE OLYMPICS
