{"id":44203,"date":"2014-12-15T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=44203 "},"modified":"2014-12-15T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:57:00","slug":"44203-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=44203","title":{"rendered":"Boxun article used as evidence to convict democracy activist Zhao Fengsheng"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2014\/50\/20141215201411242329china1(1).jpg\" alt=\"20141215201411242329china1(1).jpg (494&#215;825)\" \/><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>On November 28, 2014, democracy activist Zhao Fengsheng from Hengyang City, Hunan Province was sentenced by the Hengyang Intermediate People&#8217;s Court to four years in prison for the crime of inciting subversion of state power, with deprivation of political rights for three years. Recently, a Boxun reporter obtained a copy of Zhao Fengsheng&#8217;s court judgment. The reason for the judgment was &#8220;An Open Letter to the Leaders of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement,&#8221; which was posted on Boxun&#8217;s website on November 26, 2013.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The &nbsp;judgment states that several netizens responded online to Zhao&#8217;s Open Letter. Based on this, the court determined that Zhao used the letter to incite subversion of state power and the socialist system through violence and terrorist attack.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Chinese authorities blame the East Turkestan Islamic Movement for the knife and bomb attack that killed three and injured 79 in April. Zhao&#8217;s Open Letter suggested that Zhongnanhai, the central Beijing compound housing top government offices, would be a better target.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2014\/50\/20141215201412090647china6.jpg\" alt=\"20141215201412090647china6.jpg (439&#215;585)\" \/><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><a href=\"http:\/\/en.boxun.com\/2014\/12\/13\/boxun-article-used-as-evidence-to-convict-democracy-activist-zhao-fengsheng\/\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Continue reading the original article<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The &amp;nbsp;judgment states that several netizens responded online to Zhao&amp;#8217;s Open Letter. Based on this, the court determined that Zhao used the letter to incite subversion of state power and the socialist system through violence and terrorist attack.&lt;\/div&gt;&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-44203","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\/44203","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=44203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}