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

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 08:46:20 PDT

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    Subject: Chinese man arrested for posting messages
    Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:34:22 -0500
    From: Andy Ringsmuth <andyringat_private>
    To: "Declan McCullagh" <declanat_private>
    
    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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