{"id":47681,"date":"2015-06-19T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=47681 "},"modified":"2015-06-19T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T23:47:00","slug":"47681-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=47681","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Police Case Against Guangdong Women\\&#8217;s Rights Activist \\&#8217;Lacks Evidence\\&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>2015-06-19<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/25\/2015619image.gif\" alt=\"2015619image.gif (305&#215;252)\" \/><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Activist Su Changlan criminally detained by Guangdong police for her involvement in Hong Kong-related activities, in an undated photo.<\/div><div>Photo courtesy of Chinese Human Rights Defenders.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>State prosecutors in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have sent back the subversion case against women&#8217;s rights activist Su Changlan, who publicly supported Hong Kong&#8217;s Occupy Central pro-democracy movement, her lawyer said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;The authorities have sent the case back [to police] for further investigation,&#8221; Su&#8217;s lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan told RFA.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;After that, there&#8217;s a maximum time-limit of one month before the case must be resubmitted to the procuratorate [state prosecution service],&#8221; he said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;The reason they gave was that there is insufficient evidence [against Su Changlan],&#8221; Liu said, adding that the authorities could simply be using the legal process to drag out Su&#8217;s detention.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;Sometimes, in cases like these, the authorities use due legal process to drag things out for longer,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;Another way of looking at it is that they think there are holes in this case.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8216;Incitement to subvert&#8217;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Su was detained last October by police in Guandong&#8217;s Foshan city on suspicion of &#8220;incitement to subvert state power&#8221; after she took part in activities supporting Hong Kong&#8217;s Occupy Central pro-democracy movement, which state media described as an illegal protest backed by &#8220;hostile foreign forces.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Once a volunteer for the New York-based Women&#8217;s Rights in China group, Su is in poor health, amid concerns from her family that she is being neglected while in the police-run detention center.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Su&#8217;s husband Chen Dequan told RFA that he is concerned over his wife&#8217;s health problems, which may have worsened since her detention began.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;She suffers from intermittent cardiac standstill and hyperthyroidism,&#8221; Chen said. &#8220;Her hands shake and her eyes water.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;She was under constant medical care before her arrest, but since then, she has had no medication, and she is getting sicker and sicker,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;I am very worried about her right now, but I can&#8217;t go and enquire after her, nor can I visit her,&#8221; Chen said. &#8220;I&#8217;m afraid that one day her heart will just stop, and she&#8217;ll be gone.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>He said Su&#8217;s treatment in detention has been &#8220;substandard.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;She can&#8217;t get enough to eat, and she&#8217;s not sleeping well, with seven or eight people in a cell together,&#8221; Chen said. &#8220;This is how they are mistreating her.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Chen has previously applied to Foshan police under freedom of information laws to get detailed information about his wife&#8217;s condition, and also to answer allegations that she was forced into &#8220;confessing&#8221; her guilt.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>But police have refused the request, saying it doesn&#8217;t involve &#8220;government information.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8216;Picking quarrels&#8217;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Elsewhere in Guangdong, rights activist Liu Shaoming has been criminally detained on suspicion of &#8220;picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,&#8221; his lawyer said on Friday.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Liu&#8217;s lawyer Ge Yongxi said the authorities refused him permission to meet with his client in detention, sending him to a different department for permission.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/evidence-06192015105907.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;&quot;The authorities have sent the case back [to police] for further investigation,&quot; Su&#39;s lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan told RFA.&quot;After that, there&#39;s a maximum time-limit of one month before the case must be resubmitted to the procuratorate [state prosecution service],&quot; he said.&lt;\/div&gt;&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-47681","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\/47681","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=47681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}