Sunday, December 25, 2011

China to try another dissident for "subversive" online essays

China to try another dissident for "subversive" online essays

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will try a maestro dissident, Chen Xi, on charges of "inciting subversion" for pro-democracy essays he published online, his mother pronounced on Sunday, days after another anarchist was jailed for 9 years on identical charges.

Chen, a human rights supporter in Guiyang city in Guizhou, southwest China, was arrested final month and will be attempted for "inciting overthrow of state power," a assign mostly used opposite critics of a statute Communist Party, pronounced his mother Zhang Qunxuan.

"They indicted him given of 36 essays he published during home and overseas," Zhang told Reuters in a write interview.

"I don't know accurately what a charges are, given a justice and prosecutors wouldn't uncover me a indictment. They pronounced there are manners opposite display that to family members," she said, adding that one of Chen's lawyers told her about a overthrow accusations.

Chen, 57, is certain to say that he is innocent, though is certain to be found guilty and jailed by China's party-controlled judiciary, Zhang said.

"He's really going to quarrel a charges," she said, citing her discussions with his invulnerability lawyers. She was told of a hearing date on Friday, she added.

"But it looks certain that he'll be convicted. That's what courts always decide."

Chen was arrested final month after being expelled from a week-long apprehension triggered by his campaigning for eccentric possibilities seeking to win places on China's party-controlled People's Congress assemblies, pronounced Zhang.

Police confiscated his computer, she added.

"Then on Nov 29, a military called him and pronounced he could come and get his computer," she said. "Instead, they lured him to a open confidence business and arrested him."

Calls to a Guiyang People's Intermediate Court were not answered on Sunday, a rest day in China,. Another tellurian rights activist, Lu Yongxiang, told Reuters he also knew of a hearing on Monday by Chen Xi's friends and supporters.

The hearing will come after a justice in Sichuan province, also in southwest China, convicted rights disciple Chen Wei and condemned him to 9 years in jail after a brief hearing on Friday -- a stiffest punishment in a crackdown on gainsay this year.

Chen in a common family name in China, and a dual group are not related.

Chen Wei's wife, Wang Xiaoyan, and lawyers pronounced he was jailed as punishment for essays that he had published on abroad Chinese websites.

China uses a "firewall" of Internet filters and blocks to forestall adults from reading websites abroad that are deemed to be politically unsuitable or socially unsound.

Chen Wei's judgment was a third-longest tenure ever handed down for inciting overthrow after Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, who has been portion an 11-year judgment given 2009, and Liu Xianbin, who was jailed for 10 years in Mar this year.

Earlier this year, Chinese military hold hundreds of dissidents, rights activists and criticism organizers in a crackdown on gainsay this year, when a statute Communist Party sought to forestall intensity protests desirous by anti-authoritarian uprisings opposite a Arab world.

Many of those incarcerated have been expelled though sojourn underneath military watch. But officials seemed dynamic to "make an example" of Chen, pronounced Huang Qi, a tellurian rights disciple in Chen's home Sichuan range and a long-time crony of his.

Chen Xi, who faces hearing on Monday, is a former infantryman and bureau workman who was jailed for 3 years for his support for a 1989 pro-democracy protests opposite China that finished after infantry dejected demonstrations, pronounced his wife.

He was again jailed in 1996, though given his recover in 2005 has been an organizer of a citizens' tellurian rights forum in Guiyang.

(Editing by Yoko Nishikawa)


News referensi http://news.yahoo.com/china-try-another-dissident-subversive-online-essays-123645257.html