|
scanner11 Junior

Data inscrierii: 18/Feb/2013 Mesaje: 3
|
Trimis: 18/02/2013 12:30 Titlul subiectului: According to conventional wisdom |
|
|
Wu Lihong at work
According to conventional wisdom, the approach of the Olympics was supposed to have been a time when conditions got easier for dissidents/activists in China as Beijing tried to show its best face to the world. But as Amnesty [url=http://www.obdchina.com/vchecker-scanner-for-v500-p-1072.html]v-checker v500[/url] reports (here s the link but forget it if you are in China), the opposite seems to be the case. The amnesty report, which argued that jailing and harassment of activists has actually increased in the last year came out in April. Recent days seem to have confirmed that it is a tough time to be a dissident in China.
First there s the case raised some weeks ago by the redoubtable Southern Metroplis Daily (here in translation) of Wu Lihong, the imprisoned environmental activist. For well over a decade, Wu has campaigned tirelessly, some might say obsessively, to publicize the pollution of Lake Hu in central China, mentioned in my previous case. At what should be his clipă of vindication, Wu is languishing in jail, accused of attempting to extort money from local officials. We ve had Wu visit our Beijing office a number of moments and can say that we re quite familiar with him and his cause. The likelihood that he would sacrifice nearly 15 years of dogged work and much anguishfor a few thousand renminbi is laughable. Or it would be [url=http://www.obdchina.com/gt1-auto-scanner-for-bmw-p-49.html]bmw obd scanner[/url] if her weren t in jail.
Then there s the case of Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer about whom TIME has written often, most recently on this blog. He was beaten in prison, allegedly for refusing to have his head shaved, and went on hunger strike for three days. The information about Chen s beating was original passed on by his wife, who went to visit him in jail and found him in a sorry state. She spoke to another dissident, Hu Jia, who has been under house arrest in Beijing since late May. Hu told one of my colleagues that the inmates who beat him up told Chen: The Party will _________________ cutting machine
code obd2 |
|