{"id":44158,"date":"2014-12-13T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=44158 "},"modified":"2014-12-13T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T20:00:00","slug":"44158-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=44158","title":{"rendered":"Microblog posts lead to subversion charges for Pu Zhiqiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div><div>The lawyer representing jailed human rights attorney Pu Zhiqiang got a copy of the prosecutor&#8217;s complaint against Pu and has shared it with Boxun.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Pu Zhiqiang is suspected of creating disturbances, inciting ethnic hatred, inciting splitting of the state and illegally obtaining information on citizens and workers.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Attorney Mo Shaoping said the complaint cited as evidence 30 of Pu&#8217;s microblog posts on Sina Weibo. For example, the charge of inciting ethnic hatred is based on Pu Zhiqiang&#8217;s call after the attack at the Kunming Railway Station for China&#8217;s rulers to rethink their minority policy and improve ethnic minority relations. His comment on China&#8217;s Diaoyutai Island\/South China Sea policy is being used as evidence for the &#8220;splitting the state&#8221; charge. &nbsp;His work as an investigative reporter for Caijing magazine, Southern Weekend, and Beijing News is cited as evidence of illegally obtaining information on citizens.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Authorities quickly deleted these posts. None of the more than 30 posts connected with Pu&#8217;s crimes can be seen now.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>After acquiring the prosecutors&#8217; complaint in Pu&#8217;s case, attorney Mo Shaoping went to Beijing Number One Detention Center and saw Pu Zhiqiang for the first time. &nbsp;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&#8217;s been interrogated more than 60 times for more than 10 hours each time. His health isn&#8217;t good and one leg is swollen up to his knee.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>A New York Times article of June 13, 2014 describes Pu: &#8220;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&#8217;s labor camp system and Communist Party members seeking redress for torture they endured during extralegal corruption investigations.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/en.boxun.com\/2014\/12\/13\/due-to-30-weibo-posts-pu-zhiqiang-accused-of-inciting-subversion-of-state-power\/\">Continue reading the original article<\/a>.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Attorney Mo Shaoping said the complaint cited as evidence 30 of Pu&amp;#8217;s microblog posts on Sina Weibo. For example, the charge of inciting ethnic hatred is based on Pu Zhiqiang&amp;#8217;s call after the attack at the Kunming Railway Station for China&amp;#8217;s rulers to rethink their minority policy and improve ethnic minority relations.&amp;nbsp;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}