Chinese Court Sentences Civil Rights Activist to Jail
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China has issued a reason and dissident to three years in prison, for the subversion of booking fees. For a long time, observers say, his sentence came in record time. VOA’s Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing. Hu Jia, 34, has agreed on a broad range of sensitive issues, including human rights, Tibet and AIDS. He was placed under house arrest for most of the last few years. The Chinese authorities detained him officially in December. John Kamm, director of the US-Dui Hua Foundation, a group that the language lies in the cases of political prisoners in China for almost two decades. Comb, spoke with journalists, in Beijing, said he was not disappointed outside observers, including journalists and diplomats, were in the courtroom for the sentencing Thursday. “It’s my understanding person received,” said the comb. “That, I think, is really a shame. Ago, of course, lie on the argument that things are becoming more transparent.” At the same time, it was stated that the process was in record time, 98 days of liability, because the Chinese authorities want Hu Jia case, well before the Olympic Games in Beijing in August. “I would say they want quickly. And they did not want it obsolete raised for the Games,” he said. Speaking outside the courthouse Thursday, Li Fang Hu Jia Ping, the lawyer said his client was sentenced by the charge of inciting subversion. He referred to the court finds that the evidence against Hu Jia, including the Internet, he wrote articles and interviews he gave to foreign media. Li Jia Hu Jintao has pleaded not guilty and is relieved that the Tribunal in any case not free with a so-called “serious crimes”, it would say yes, that more than five years in prison. Hu Jintao has 10 days to file a complaint. China’s mouthpiece of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jiang Yu defended the decision and said that human rights criticism as a pretext for interference in the internal affairs of China. She told journalists in China will not “Stop the implementation of the rule of law before the Olympics.” The United States Embassy in Beijing, in a statement to express Washington’s dismay at the judgement. The statement called on China on the occasion of their best face forward and take steps to improve its files relating to human rights and freedom of religion. |