Aliette Guibert on Fri, 2 Apr 2004 21:35:50 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Human rights in China / Alert |
Tiday from rekombinant list (IT) http://iso.hrichina.org/iso/ Petitioner Sentenced for Internet Postings March 31, 2004 Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that petitioner Ma Yalian has been sentenced to one and a half years of Reeducation Through Labor (RTL) because of articles she posted on the Internet exposing the dark side of China's petitioning system. Ma's harsh treatment is an example of the recent crackdown by authorities against petitioners. According to HRIC's sources in China, the decision rendered by Shanghai's RTL Administrative Committee on March 16 states that "from July 2003 until February 2004, Ma Yalian on numerous occasions posted on chineselawyer.com.cn, dajiyuan.com and other Web sites articles falsely accusing the Shanghai authorities of causing her physical injury." The decision also stated that Ma Yalian had "turned petitioning into pestering." # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]