Uigurlederen Rebiya Kadeer under en konferanse i Genève i Sveits for menneskerettigheter, toleranse og demokrati. Hennes organisasjon World Uighur Congress har vært et av målene som en mann nå er dømt for å ha spionert mot, til fordel for Kina. Foto: REUTERS / Denis Balibouse / SCANPIX
Stockholm (NTB-TT-Reuters): En 62 år gammel uigur er dømt til 16 måneders fengsel i Sverige. Mannen spionerte på sine landsmenn og ga opplysningene til Kina. – Nonsens, svarer Kina.
Hallingdølen 9-3-2010
Den dømte er svensk statsborger og har bodd i Sverige i 13 år. Ifølge Stockholm tingrett er han skyldig i «grov, ulovlig etterretningsvirksomhet», ifølge informasjon om dommen på domstolens hjemmeside.
Spionasjen er drevet til fordel for Kina og har minst pågått fra januar 2008 til juni 2009.
Mannen har infiltrert uigur-miljøet i Sverige, og opplysningene han har skaffet seg, har han levert videre til en diplomat ved Kinas ambassade i Stockholm og til en agent for Kinas etterretningstjeneste som formelt opptrådte som korrespondent for den kinesiske partiavisen Folkets Dagblad.
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Flertallet av Kinas forskere bruker Google som sin viktigste søkemotor. Hvis Google trekker seg ut av landet i protest mot sensur, vil vitenskapen lide.
VG – 6/3/10
Over tre firedeler av vitenskapsmenn i Kina sier at Google er et hovedredskap i deres forskning. Dersom Google forsvinner, vil det hindre dem i å gjøre jobben skikkelig, viser en fersk undersøkelse.
Googles framtid i Kina er usikker etter strid om sensur. Google ønsker å få garantier fra myndighetene om at de kan levere usensurerte søkerresultater.
12. januar gikk Google ut og truet med å trekke seg ut av Kina etter at de avdekket omfattende snoking i datasystemene. Blant annet skal e-postkontoene til en rekke kinesiske dissidenter og menneskerettsforkjempere ha blitt åpnet av uvedkommende. De massive hackerangrepene mot Google og andre amerikanske selskaper før jul er i ettertid knyttet til det kinesiske militæret.
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Defense attorney loses his own case in Chongqing
Epoch Times 23/2/10
In the Chongqing First Intermediate Court a criminal defense attorney learned the hard way one of the basic unwritten rules of China’s legal system: don’t get involved in a political case. His sudden fall helps illustrate the progress of China toward adopting the rule of law.
Chongqing, a large city in southwestern China, is one of four provincial-level municipalities in China (meaning that the city itself has the status of a province). It is ruled by Party Secretary Bo Xilai, who in June 2009 launched a campaign called “hitting the black.” The state-run media describes the campaign as targeting organized crime and corruption, but it in fact is a political campaign, one that Bo Xilai launched to try to boost his career.
Beijing-based defense lawyer Li Zhuang was brought to Chongqing by the family of an alleged gangster named Gong Gangmo to defend him. On Dec. 13, however, Li himself was arrested on charges of having falsified evidence and obstructed justice in his attempt to defend Gong. In particular, Li was charged with having advised Gong to claim falsely that he had been tortured into confessing.
At his trial, Li asserted his innocence and even said he was willing to give up his freedom if in doing so he would help further the rule of law in China.
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Bo Xilai (center), communist party chief of Chongqing, has been accused of running an unconstitutional political campaign that is reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution.
Epoch Times
The “hitting the black” campaign in China was initiated in June 2009 by Bo Xilai, the high-profile communist party chief of Chongqing. The state-run media has lauded it as a means of cracking down on gangsters and local corruption, while critics view it as illegal, unconstitutional, and reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution. Some critics also say it functions to strengthen corruption within law enforcement circles.
The campaign has prompted the most large-scale crackdown on gangsters and corruption in the history of Chongqing since 1983, according to the deputy chief of the city’s Public Security Bureau.
An article in the Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily on Feb. 3 reported that the campaign resulted in 10,372 people arrested within the city and over 1,000 sentenced to forced labor between July 10 and Sept. 30, 2009. The article, titled “Waves of Forced Labor Detentions Amidst the ‘Hitting the Black’ Campaign,” describes how the campaign has resulted in an inundation of the detention centers in Chongqing.
Police stations required to meet detention quotas
The article says that local police stations are given “forced labor detention quotas.” A police chief receives a warning for not meeting the quota the first time; a second violation results in dismissal.
In order to meet quotas, some police stations resort to purchasing forced labor detainees—at a cost of 3,000 yuan (US$439) per detainee, according to the report.
City authorities also warn that anyone with a previous criminal record can be sent to a forced labor camp for carrying a knife.
One Chongqing resident said that local court officials made it clear that, under the “hitting the black” campaign, once a person is sent to a forced labor camp, he or she will be required to serve a forced-labor term.
The report also states that if it is determined that a mistake has been made, it is acceptable to compensate the person only after the term of detention is served.
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Big names behind petition to U.N. for missing rights lawyer
Sound of Hope via Epoch Times 9/2/10
The one-year anniversary of the disappearance of renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was marked on Feb. 5 by the filing of a petition with the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Involuntary Disappearances. And it received strong support from big names in international human rights. Filed by Freedom Now, a panel of international human rights experts put their names behind it, including Jerome A. Cohen, Irwin Cotler MP, David Matas and David Kilgour.
The petition requests the UN’s assistance in demanding that the Chinese communist regime, in accordance with Chinese law, provide information regarding the whereabouts and physical condition of Gao Zhisheng. It also requests that Gao be granted access to a lawyer, with the opportunity to challenge his internment.
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