China Upholds Nobel Winner's Relative's Sentence

[News_Editor]

Liu Xia, wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, talks to journalists after a trial outside a court in the Huairou district of Beijing on June 9, 2013. (Photo: Reuters)

BEIJING:” A Chinese court on Friday upheld the 11-year prison sentence handed down to the brother-in-law of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, the man's lawyer said.

Relatives have denounced Liu Huiâ's conviction on fraud charges in a real estate dispute as political payback for the strong pro-democracy stance taken by Liu Xiaobo, who was imprisoned on subversion charges in 2009.

Lawyer Shang Baojun said the court in suburban Beijing's Huairou district turned down Liu Hui's appeal.

"We're very disappointed by this outcome," Shang told The Associated Press.

Liu Hui's sister, Liu Xia, has been under house arrest since her husband was awarded the Nobel prize in 2010. Shang said that Liu Xia, who has protested her extra-legal detention, did not attend Friday’s hearing because she wasn't feeling well.

Foreign diplomats and journalists who sought to attend the trial were denied entry to the courthouse.

Liu Xiaobo's Nobel prize incensed China's leaders, who adamantly rejected his calls for sweeping changes to Beijing's one-party communist political system contained in a document titled called Charter ˜08". A court dismissed his appeal in early 2010.

China also has retaliated against Norway, where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, freezing the country's diplomats out of meetings, halting trade talks, and blocking salmon imports.

Liu Hui's lawyers have said his dispute over a development deal in Beijing had already been resolved, with the disputed 3 million yuan ($500,000) handed over to partners in the transaction, before the case went to trial.

Source: Irrawaddy.org

[Publicus]

This is what happens when there is a fascist one party state that runs the country with an iron hand, forbidding all dissent, punishing all dissenters, censoring all who criticize on the internet.

The first article is about Liu Hui, who is the brother in law of the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize.

In 2010, Dr Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Liu, who was and remains in prison serving an 11 year sentence, had been convicted for sedition when he openly advocated a peaceful, gradual, evolutionary development of democracy in the CCP-PRC.

The government of the CCP-PRC is the only government of the world to have a Nobel Peace Prize winner in prison. Even the generals in Myanmar left Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for a dozen years until releasing her as a major part of their new reform drive which In large part rejects the influence of the CCP-PRC.

The second article is about the second PRChinese to win a Nobel Prize. In 2012, the writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Mo however shocked the CCP when he called for the release from prison of 2010 Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Jiaobo, during his news conference held after the announcement that Mo had won.

The Boyz in Beijing were shocked at Mo Yan's public call as they had always considered Mo safe, based on his never having criticized the government in any way, at any time. Mo embarrassed hell out of the Boyz but, given his high profile and the nature of the prize, has escaped any direct retaliation by the Boyz.

The third article takes us back to Dr Liu Xiaobo himself, and the announcement from Oslo that he had been awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Beijing got livid, calling the Peace Prize Committee "a bunch of little clowns" and a lot of other far out things. Dr Liu remains imprisoned.

China rejects appeal by Nobel laureate's brother-in-law

http://news.yahoo.com/china-rejects-appeal-nobel-laureates-brother-law-035407772.html

HUAIROU, China (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Friday rejected an appeal by the brother-in-law of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, upholding his 11-year sentence on fraud charges, a case seen as another example of official retribution on the Liu family.

Supporters of Liu Hui say his case was trumped up, aimed at thwarting the increasing attention by the rights community on the plight of Liu Xia, who has remained under effective house arrest since her husband won the Nobel Prize in 2010.

The ruling - announced by a court in Huairou, a one-hour drive northeast of Beijing - was not unexpected as China hardens its stance towards the rights community under the rule of newly-installed President Xi Jinping.




China Nobel winner Mo Yan calls for jailed laureate's freedom
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/12/us-china-moyan-idUSBRE89B0FJ20121012

(Reuters) - Chinese Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan unexpectedly called for the release of jailed compatriot Liu Xiaobo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago, having come under fire from rights activists for not speaking up for him.

The author, a portly 57-year-old whose adopted pen name Mo Yan means "don't speak", said he had read some of Liu's literary criticisms in the 1980s, but that he had no understanding of Liu's work once it had turned towards politics.

"I hope he can achieve his freedom as soon as possible," Mo told reporters on Friday in his hometown of Gaomi in the northern province of Shandong, in bold remarks likely to embarrass Beijing which has lauded his victory and denigrated Liu's prize.




China livid as dissident Liu wins Nobel Peace Prize
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/10/08/us-nobel-peace-idUSTRE6964LP20101008

(Reuters) - Jailed Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for two decades of non-violent struggle for human rights, infuriating China, which called the award "an obscenity".

The prize shines a spotlight on human rights in China at a time when it is starting to play a leading role on the global stage as a result of its growing economic might.

"We have to speak when others cannot speak," Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told Reuters. "[W]e should have the right to criticize."

[boomerangutang]

Man, I'm sure glad I'm not subjected to China's subjective and mean courts of law. I would call it a 'judicial system,' but that would denigrating the word 'judicial.'

11 years detention for a thought crime - that's sicko. I hope Thailand doesn't follow that lead, though the recent fuss with 'Line' is ominous - as it looks like Thai Thought Police are laying the groundwork for Chinese-style oppression. E.Germany's former Thought-Police czar Honniker is probably smiling from his grave at this news.

[Sing_Sling]

Ridiculous . . . simply ridiculous.

having said that, how far are certain western governments from this given the harassment of people in transit who are not related directly to any possible case.

Yes, the dear UK at the behest of the US

Wonderful

[Credo]

Let's get our licks in at the US and throw the UK in at the same time. There is simply no comparison between being questioned for 9 hours and being convicted, and the conviction being upheld, for 11 years.

[Publicus]

I don't fear my government.

Having lived four years in the CCP-PRC, I see the difference is radical. The USA and the CCP-PRC are fundamentally opposites in every significant way.

The occurrence in the airport in London is a tiny blip on the radar of political freedom and responsibility.

Anyone who has any doubts might want to peruse the links below to be better informed in the matter.

Chinese Dissidents in Labor Camp

People are still sent to re-education centers where they undergo brainwashing study sessions and are required to write daily “thought reports.”

Detainees are often kept their until they “change their thinking” and “raise their level of understanding.”

China also still uses state-run mental health hospitals to keep political prisoners.

http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=1646&subcatid=50

China: Laogai Camps

Dictatorships throughout history have relied on fear and control to maintain power.

The world has resoundingly condemned the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps, the Soviet Gulag, and many other systems of repression around the globe, but has remained largely silent on one of the most extensive and repressive prison camp system in the world: the Chinese Laogai.

Since the early 1950s, China has used the Laogai to crush dissent and root out potential sources of opposition, whether political, economic, or religious in nature, while simultaneously exploiting prisoners as a source of free labor.

http://www.politicalprisoners.eu/lao-gai-camps.html

[Sing_Sling]

Let's get our licks in at the US and throw the UK in at the same time. There is simply no comparison between being questioned for 9 hours and being convicted, and the conviction being upheld, for 11 years.

It's a matter of degrees - and the unlawful detention in the UK of a person not connected with any crime simply to harass is well on the way there.

Let's not even start with the US and their drone program and electronic surveillance on their own people and allies.

The same? Only a fool would suggest that and only a insincere fool would suggest others would.

Similarities? Matter of degrees? Definitely

(And yes . . . I've been in China many times, my brother and sister-in-law were at their respective embassy there for four years . . . though what I have said is true I wouldn't constantly use that to underline my knowledge vis-a-vis others . . . blah blah blah . . . instant credibility, even without constantly quoting copious articles that, at best, have tenuous links to he subject matter)

[Scott]

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[Publicus]

Tibet is a long standing instance of how the dictatorship in Beijing creates empire and imposes itself on the conquered people there, systematically, unrelentingly, brutally.

Who can compare this to Miranda?

Who would try to make any such comparison?

The “Patriotic Education” of Tibet

Buddhist Monks in Tibet Held in Detention at "Patriotic Education" Camps

In Tibet, the greatest casualties of Chinese governance have been religion and culture.

From its invasion, or “liberation” in Beijing’s eyes, of Tibet in 1949, through the years of “Democratic Reforms” and “Cultural Revolution,” to today, China has converted a land of Buddhism and open-minded philosophy into a territory where a government and its laws control faith and dictate belief.

One such policy is “patriotic re-education” or simply “patriotic education,” under which “work-teams” (known in Chinese as gongzou dui and in Tibetan as ledonrukhag) consisting of both Chinese and trusted Tibetan officials visit monasteries and nunneries to force on monks and nuns the concept of unity of Tibet and China and to identify dissidents.

http://thediplomat.com/2013/08/21/the-patriotic-education-of-tibet/

Edited August 21, 2013 by Publicus

[boomerangutang]

That photo of the monks behind bars is a sad reminder of one of the ugliest secrets the Beijing politburo has foisted upon Tibet. One irony is, tourists (foreign and domestic) are eager to go to Tibet, and one of their prime goals is to tune in to and appreciate the rich cultural traditions of Mahayana Buddhist which used to infuse nearly every aspect of life in that fascinating former country.

Not too long ago, Maoist imbeciles were cruising the country, looking to physically destroy as much of that culture as they could with sledgehammers. Now, the sons and daughters of those destructive idiots are smiling tour guides, showing off what remains. And the human suffering.... those stories could fill volumes. One little chapter would be the story of why that very young monk (in photo) is holed up in a prison cell.