FC: China imprisons man for "insulting" Communist Party on Net

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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--DBM]

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Subject: Chinese man arrested for posting messages
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:34:22 -0500
From: Andy Ringsmuth <andyring () inebraska com>
To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>

Declan, perhaps something of interest to Politech readers.

Stumbled across it while browsing the site of my local newspaper.

http://update.journalstar.com/stories/7

Chinese man jailed for posting Internet messages
The Associated Press

BEIJING -- A businessman was sentenced to three years in prison for
posting articles critical of Chinese leaders and the ruling Communist
Party on the Internet, according to a government newspaper report.

Liu Weifang, 40, was convicted last week of incitement to subversion by a
court in the Turkic Muslim Xinjiang region, the Xinjiang Daily reported.

[...]

A corps of computer police monitor the Internet for talk regarded as
subversive and block Web sites viewed as hostile. Internet service
providers have been told they must remove all anti-government material or
be held accountable.


-Andy Ringsmuth




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