{"id":51502,"date":"2015-11-25T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=51502 "},"modified":"2015-11-25T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T22:56:00","slug":"51502-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=51502","title":{"rendered":"Gao Yu: Court upholds verdict for jailed Chinese journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ms Gao, seen here in a 2007 file picture, is a well-known investigative journalist<\/div>
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A Chinese court has upheld a guilty verdict against a senior journalist accused of leaking state secrets, her lawyer said.<\/div>
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Gao Yu did, however, receive a reduced sentence from seven years to five years in prison.<\/div>
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Ms Gao, who is 71, was found guilty last April and appealed her conviction at a closed hearing in Beijing.<\/div>
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Foreign governments and human rights groups have condemned the verdict calling it politically motivated.<\/div>
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The well-known investigative journalist was found guilty of sending an internal Communist Party document to Mingjing News, a Chinese-language website in the United States.<\/div>
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The document warned against the dangers of a free press and an independent civil society.<\/div>
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At the time of the original conviction the court had said that Ms Gao had “illegally provided state secrets to foreigners”.<\/div>
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Both Ms Gao and Mingjing News have denied she was the source of the leak.<\/div>
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Unpopular with authorities<\/div>
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The BBC’s Celia Hatton in Beijing says no reason was given by the court to explain the unusual reduction in her sentence.<\/div>
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Although many people have pressed for a lighter sentence in consideration of Ms Gao’s advanced age and her chronic heart problems.<\/div>
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Ms Gao’s son, Zhao Meng, told the BBC he was concerned his mother would not survive another lengthy period in prison, her third since 1989.<\/div>
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Our correspondent says many believe that Gao Yu is unpopular with the Chinese government because of her unrelenting reports focusing on China’s elite-level politics.<\/div>
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On the 2015 World Press Freedom Index compiled by the France-based organisation Reporters without Borders, China ranked 176th out of 180 countries.<\/div>
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News of Ms Gao’s upheld conviction attracted further criticism. <\/div>
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Prominent human rights activist Hu Jia tweeted in Mandarin: “Changing seven years to five years has no meaning, for innocent citizen Gao Yu to be detained for five minutes is already a violation of rights.”<\/div>
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