{"id":50832,"date":"2015-11-05T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=50832 "},"modified":"2015-11-05T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T22:14:00","slug":"50832-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=50832","title":{"rendered":"China Jails Two Zhengzhou 10 Activists Over Eviction Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Protesters gather in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 2, 1989.<\/div>
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Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan have handed down jail terms of four years and 18 months to two activists from the provincial capital, Zhengzhou.<\/div>
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Jia Lingmin and Liu Diwei were found guilty on Wednesday by the Gongyi District People’s Court of “spreading false information online” and “obstructing a normal demolition and eviction operation.”<\/div>
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Jia was handed a four-year jail term, while Liu was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, Jia’s husband Yan Chongmin told RFA after the trial.<\/div>
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The sentences came after they offered legal assistance to local people facing forced eviction from their homes.<\/div>
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“We received a phone call from a judge surnamed Bai at the Gongyi district court today at 10.00 a.m. [telling us] to come to the court,” Yan said. “We got there … and they resumed the court session and immediately passed sentence.”<\/div>
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“As they were reading out the charges again, Jia raised her voice in protest, saying they had muddled the facts of the case,” he said. “Jia said she would appeal … she’s not going to let this go.”<\/div>
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Health worries<\/div>
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Yan said much of the evidence brought by the prosecution had failed to take into account certain facts of the case, and no witnesses were brought.<\/div>
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“They made no mention of any of the things we raised.”<\/div>
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Yan said he is extremely worried about his wife’s health.<\/div>
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“I am really worried aobut her, even though my wife seemed in good spirits when I saw her in court,” he said. “But she has been in a detention center for more than a year now, and her health can’t be good.”<\/div>
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“She put a brave face on it, but she was suffering inside,” Yan said.<\/div>
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Defense lawyer Ma Lianshun said the charges against both defendants were trumped up.<\/div>
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“To find them both guilty was capricious, and a perversion of the law,” Ma said. “The government sees anyone who tries to stop it getting rich, taking the people’s land and demolishing their homes … as the greatest form of evil.”<\/div>
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“They will use all of their power to persecute such people.”<\/div>
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He said Jia’s heavier sentence was linked to the fact that she often went to government agencies alone to represent evictees.<\/div>
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Liu was seen by the authorities as assisting her in that work, he said.<\/div>
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Sham trial<\/div>
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He rejected the trial, the verdict and the sentence, however.<\/div>
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“Our courts always find people guilty,” Ma said. “This whole trial was a sham.”<\/div>
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“No government body is willing to uphold justice; they just do any bad thing the [ruling Chinese Communist] Party tells them to do,” he said.<\/div>
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Jia and Liu were among the “Zhengzhou 10” activists who marked the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square military crackdown.<\/div>
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The group was detained in May 2014 for commemorating the bloodshed that ended the student-led democracy movement, as well as the deaths of ousted former premiers Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang.<\/div>
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<div>"We received a phone call from a judge surnamed Bai at the Gongyi district court today at 10.00 a.m. [telling us] to come to the court," Yan said. "We got there … and they resumed the court session and immediately passed sentence."<\/div><\/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-50832","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\/50832","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=50832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}