China sentences writer
July 13, 2006
Filed under: Did You Know? — Rxbbx @ 6:05 pm
China sentenced Li Yuanlong to two years in jail. He expressed himself through china’s censored internet. In March, a Chinese court allready jailed a teacher, Ren Ziyuan, for 10 years for publishing anti-government views on the Internet. Li Yuanlongs lawyer, Li Jianqiang, said Li would appeal the sentence imposed by a Bijie court, but added it was lighter than many expected.
“Legally, to sentence him to even one or two days was wrong, but given China’s judicial environment this wasn’t as bad as it could have been,” the lawyer said.
“This wasn’t as bad as it could have been”, sad but true but in many places they have similar problems. It’s for people still impossible to speak and write their own thougths in parts of this world.
