The lawyer representing jailed human rights attorney Pu Zhiqiang got a copy of the prosecutor’s complaint against Pu and has shared it with Boxun.
Pu Zhiqiang is suspected of creating disturbances, inciting ethnic hatred, inciting splitting of the state and illegally obtaining information on citizens and workers.
Attorney Mo Shaoping said the complaint cited as evidence 30 of Pu’s microblog posts on Sina Weibo. For example, the charge of inciting ethnic hatred is based on Pu Zhiqiang’s call after the attack at the Kunming Railway Station for China’s rulers to rethink their minority policy and improve ethnic minority relations. His comment on China’s Diaoyutai Island/South China Sea policy is being used as evidence for the “splitting the state” charge. His work as an investigative reporter for Caijing magazine, Southern Weekend, and Beijing News is cited as evidence of illegally obtaining information on citizens.
Authorities quickly deleted these posts. None of the more than 30 posts connected with Pu’s crimes can be seen now.
After acquiring the prosecutors’ complaint in Pu’s case, attorney Mo Shaoping went to Beijing Number One Detention Center and saw Pu Zhiqiang for the first time. He said that Pu has high blood pressure and diabetes, and is taking medicine in the detention center. Because his crime is still under investigation, he’s been interrogated more than 60 times for more than 10 hours each time. His health isn’t good and one leg is swollen up to his knee.
A New York Times article of June 13, 2014 describes Pu: “A student leader during the 1989 protests, Mr. Pu, 49, a hulking presence with a commanding baritone, is a fearless legal crusader known for taking on cases that invariably irk the ruling Communist Party. In recent years he has defended the dissident artist Ai Weiwei, victims of China’s labor camp system and Communist Party members seeking redress for torture they endured during extralegal corruption investigations.”
