Posted on 08/22/2017 8:54:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A prominent Chinese human rights campaigner accused of inciting subversion of state power said at his trial Tuesday that he had used social media to inspire distrust in the Chinese government before being detained in a sweeping crackdown on independent lawyers and rights activists.
Parts of the trial of Jiang Tianyong were broadcast on the social media account of Changsha Intermediate People’s Court in the central province of Hunan, an unusual move for such a politically sensitive case. Prosecutors said he had used social media platforms to denigrate the government and judicial authorities and incite others to subvert state power.
Jiang was filmed saying he had used Twitter and Sina Weibo and interviews with overseas media to spread anti-government messages among the public. […]
Jiang was initially charged with subversion of state power, but it was downgraded to the lesser charge of incitement, which is often punished with time served while under investigation.
Vaguely defined subversion-related charges are frequently leveled against rights activists and perceived political foes of the ruling Communist Party. …
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Another CCP show trial of a Chinese human rights activist with a forced confession. The defendants are put through hell in prison to make them confess so they can be seen via state propaganda to acknowledge they did wrong. Stalin’s Soviet Union tactics.
Why do western businessmen want to surrender their co.’s profits, control and IP to get into China? It’s a false hope of profit as the CCP puts in controls so no profit leaves China and will then nationalize the factory.
Because Goal #37 of the communists for the USA (as outlined in The Naked Communist) was achieved quite some time ago.
Why do western businessmen want to surrender their co.’s profits, control and IP to get into China? …
Infiltrate and gain control of big business.These ideologues believe that helping a communist dictatorship will, as the Manifesto puts it, “increase the total number of productive forces as rapidly as possible”. They hate constitutional republics and the free market.
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