{"id":57275,"date":"2016-06-25T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=57275 "},"modified":"2016-06-25T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T18:45:00","slug":"57275-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=57275","title":{"rendered":"China Tries Civil Rights Activist For Subversion, Detains Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chinese rights activist Huang Wenxun is shown in an undated photo.<\/span><\/p>

Photo courtesy of canyu.org<\/span><\/p>

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A court in the central Chinese province of Hubei on Friday tried a civil rights activist for “incitement to subvert state power” after holding him in pretrial detention for three years, his lawyers and relatives said.<\/span><\/p>

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Huang Wenxun was detained around the same time as fellow New Citizens’ Movement activists Yuan Fengchu, also known as Yuan Bing, and Yuan Xiaohua, who were sentenced to three-and-a-half and four years respectively last month for “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.”<\/span><\/p>

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The three were targeted for their involvement in press freedom protests outside the Southern group of newspapers in the southern city of Guangzhou, after a local propaganda official rewrote the 2013 New Year’s Day editorial to remove references to constitutional government.<\/span><\/p>

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All three, who hail from Hubei’s Chibi city, were held in prolonged pretrial incarceration after their initial detention by police in the southern province of Guangdong in June 2013.<\/span><\/p>

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Rumors had previously emerged that Huang had been tried in secret, but his case was heard on Friday by the Xianning People’s Court in Xianning city, which administers Chibi.<\/span><\/p>

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The trial started at 8.00 a.m. and finished at 5.00 p.m., Huang’s defense lawyer Luo Lizhi told RFA.<\/span><\/p>

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He said he had argued that Huang is not guilty.<\/span><\/p>

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“I don’t believe that Huang’s actions constituted incitement to subvert state power, objectively speaking,” he said. <\/span><\/p>

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But Luo declined to comment further.<\/span><\/p>

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“You should call back in a couple of days, because it’s not convenient for me to give interviews right now,” he said.<\/span><\/p>

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“Not convenient” is often used by people under surveillance or political pressure to indicate that they are being closely watched by the authorities.<\/span><\/p>

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Supporters warned<\/span><\/p>

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The trial went ahead amidst tight security, Huang’s supporters said, many of whom were approached by state security police and warned not to try to attend.<\/span><\/p>

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“We didn’t go, because we had all been given warnings beforehand not to go,” fellow activist Mao Shanchun told RFA.<\/span><\/p>

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“Some of my friends went, such as Sun Tao from Fujian province, who set off from my place yesterday, but he went incommunicado once he had arrived in Wuhan [provincial capital of] Hubei,” Mao said.<\/span><\/p>

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“My friends told me that he’s now in a police station in Xianning city, and I called him, but he refused to discuss what had happened to him,” he said.<\/span><\/p>

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Fellow activist Bao Naigang said at least three people have been detained or placed under surveillance to prevent them from traveling to Xianning in support of Huang.<\/span><\/p>

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“One is Ouyang Jinghua, another is Sun Tao, and then there’s Wang Jiawei,” he said. “I think they are all in Xianning.”<\/span><\/p>

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Calls to Sun Tao and Ouyang Jinghua’s cell phones resulted in “switched off” messages on Friday.<\/span><\/p>

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Wang Jiawei confirmed that the three had been detained, however.<\/span><\/p>

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“I have left the Henggouqiao police station in Xianning now. I have just been released and now I’m on the high-speed train,” he said.<\/span><\/p>

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“They forced us to buy tickets back to Wuhan, and then they escorted us aboard the high-speed train and left us there,” Wang said.<\/span><\/p>

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Repeated calls to the Xianning police department rang unanswered during office hours on Friday.<\/span><\/p>

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Political trial<\/span><\/p>

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The Hubei-based rights group Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch said Huang’s trial was entirely political in nature.<\/span><\/p>

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“We must support Huang Wenxun out of conscience and morality, even though there is no way that we can influence the outcome of this political trial,” the group said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>

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“This young rights activist in his 20s was working towards democracy and constitutional government,” it said.<\/span><\/p>

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“His ideals will not be destroyed by the government’s political persecution of those who carry out street protests,” it said.<\/span><\/p>

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