{"id":43696,"date":"2014-11-22T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=43696 "},"modified":"2014-11-22T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T19:41:00","slug":"43696-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=43696","title":{"rendered":"Chinese journalist Gao Yu faces trial for leaking state secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"
20 November 2014 Last updated at 13:20 ET<\/div>
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Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who served a seven-year prison sentence for disclosing ‘state secrets’ looks on in Hong Kong, 05 February 2007<\/div>
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Gao Yu says she was forced to admit to the crime of leaking state secrets<\/div>
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Chinese journalist Gao Yu goes on trial on Friday accused of leaking an internal Communist Party document. She faces a life sentence. What has Ms Gao done to anger Chinese leaders?<\/div>
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At the time, it was an astonishing confession. Gao Yu, a highly respected freelance journalist, was shown on national television in China, admitting she made a “big mistake”.<\/div>
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Her face digitally blurred, she admitted to stealing a confidential Communist Party document and sending it to a foreign news website.<\/div>
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Even then, many suspected that the 70-year-old Ms Gao had been forced into confessing her guilt.<\/div>
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And now we know more: in a recent pre-trial hearing, Ms Gao told the court that she falsely admitted to a crime because police were threatening to arrest her son.<\/div>
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He had been detained at the same time as his mother. She did not know the “confession” would be televised.<\/div>
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‘Document No. 9’<\/div>
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Ms Gao is used to fighting with the Chinese authorities. She served more than five years in jail in the 1990s on similar charges of stealing state secrets.<\/div>
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She had been convicted of sending Party documents, including a speech by then-President Jiang Zemin, to a Hong Kong newspaper.<\/div>
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This time, the Chinese government believes Ms Gao sent an internal Communist Party document, known as “Document No 9”, to foreign news sites, including the Chinese-language site of the German broadcaster, Deutsche Welle.<\/div>
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Ms Gao’s lawyers are mounting a two-pronged defence.<\/div>
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They will demand the court dismiss the content of her confession, because it was made under duress.<\/div>
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They also want the court to reconsider whether the case is related to state secrets, since the document she allegedly leaked was already widely circulated.<\/div>
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Human rights and media watch groups have decried the persecution of Ms Gao.<\/div>
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