{"id":45089,"date":"2015-01-28T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=45089 "},"modified":"2015-01-28T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T21:19:00","slug":"45089-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=45089","title":{"rendered":"The case against Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang"},"content":{"rendered":"
28 January 2015 Last updated at 05:47 ET<\/div>
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BBC News, Beijing<\/div>
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Pu Zhiqiang (C), the lawyer for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, talks to the media at the artist’s studio in Beijing on November 14, 2011.<\/div>
Pu Zhiqiang was famous for his eloquence in the courtroom<\/div>
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Before his detention last May, Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang often posted his thoughts online.<\/div>
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Between 2012 and 2014, Mr Pu wrote thousands of dispatches on weibo, China’s version of Twitter.<\/div>
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Now just 28 of those messages could be used by the government to put Pu Zhiqiang behind bars for a very long time.<\/div>
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Mr Pu was once a towering presence in Chinese courtrooms, garnering admiration for his spirited defence of famous dissidents, including the artist Ai Weiwei, and the downtrodden, including poor farmers fighting rural corruption.<\/div>
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He was famous for his eloquence, sometimes citing classical Chinese poetry in the courtroom.<\/div>
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‘Telling lies’<\/div>
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But Pu Zhiqiang’s blunt weibo messages, many of them expressing frustration with the ruling Chinese Communist Party, are forming the state’s case against him.<\/div>
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Police supplied a short list to Pu Zhiqiang’s lawyer, Mo Shaoping.<\/div>
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“From top to bottom, the Communist Party can’t get through a single day without telling lies,” he posted on 24 July, 2012.<\/div>
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