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March 29th, 2018 
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Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Lee Ching-yu, the wife of Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-che who is jailed in the People’s Republic of China vowed Wednesday to keep fighting for her husband’s release after Beijing allowed her to visit him in prison. Among the “crimes” Lee allegedly committed were statements criticizing the Communist Party of the people’s Republic of China and other, similar activities allegedly threatening national security.
Lee Ming-che is serving a five-year sentence after being convicted by a court in the People’s Republic of China (China) in November on charges of subverting state power. His wife Lee Ching-yu said in the Taiwanese capital Taipei after visiting Lee at Chishan prison in China’s central Hunan province that Lee seemed physically fine but was barred from writing to her.
“I earnestly request everyone to keep on paying attention to Lee Ming-che,” Lee Ching-yu said. “For as long as he is in jail, as long as he is not free, my efforts to rescue him will not stop.”
Lee was found guilty of subversion for holding online political lectures and helping the families of jailed dissidents in China. His conviction showed how Beijing’s harshest crackdown on human rights in decades has extended beyond the Chinese mainland. Beijing regards self-ruled Taiwan as part of Chinese territory.
Sentenced by a People’s Kangaroo Court after pleading guilty to avoid worse punishment
Taiwanese right activist Lee Ming-che who has been held by the People’s Republic of China for alleged subversive activities since March 19, 2017 pleaded guilty of subversion in a court in Yueyang in China’s Hunan province on Monday, September 11, 2.017. At the Yueyang Intermediate Court in Hunan Province, Lee Ming-che pleaded guilty to subverting Beijing’s authority, the first time a non-profit worker has been prosecuted on such charges since China passed a new strict law constraining foreign non-governmental organizations.
Giving testimony in Court Lee admitted that he “had spread articles that maliciously attacked the Communist Party of China, China’s existing system, and China’s government”. Regarding the content of the prosecution, Lee said there was no objection and he thanked the law enforcement unit for its “civilized handling of the case.” Lee’s wife, Lee Ching-yu, who was invited by the Chinese government to attend the trial, told reporters that she believed her husband may be pressured into pleading guilty.
She also pleaded to the public in Taiwan to show forgiveness because her husband mat be pressured into saying something that would be embarrassing, and that she was hopeful that her husband would be released. Lee’s mother, Kuo Hsiu-chin, is also attending the trial. Earlier attempts by his wife to fly to China and visit him were barred by the authorities there, who canceled her travel document. Lee is a former employee of President Tsai Ing-wen’s Democratic Progressive Party who expressed interest in China’s human rights situation and later went on to volunteer for a non-governmental organization that raised money for families of political prisoners in China and lecture on Taiwan’s democratization at community colleges.
In kangaroo court after the “People’s Republic” disappeared Lee?
Lee pleads guilty at “the people’s” kangaroo court?
There is a strong case for the argument that Lee “was disappeared” in violation of international law against forced disappearances and other humanitarian laws. It took the government of the People’s Republic of China ten days before Beijing caved in for mounting international pressure and acknowledged that Lee had been arrested.
At a regular news conference in Beijing Wednesday, March 29, 2017 Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Ma Xiaoguang, for the first time acknowledged that Lee had been detained, saying he was being investigated “on the suspicion of conducting activities damaging to national security.” Ma Xiaoguang did not specify what risk Lee Ming-che could have posed to the people’s republic’s “national security”.
He was showing no health problems, Ma said, following concern by his wife about high blood pressure and the possible absence of the necessary medicine. However, Beijing’s spokesman refused to answer questions from Taiwanese reporters as to Lee’s whereabouts, and he did not provide any details about what the former DPP worker had supposedly been doing.
Ma merely claimed that Taiwanese visitors to China had nothing to fear as long as they showed “normal” behavior as the country followed the rule of law. He did not specify what he meant with “normal” either or whether being outspoken about human rights issues was regarded as “not normal or rather normative behavior” in the people’s republic.
The statement prompted nsnbc editor-in-chief Christof Lehmann (this author) to ironically question what “the people’s republic” considers as “normal or normative behavior”, and if that would include “shutting up about human rights concerns, working for low wages for the benefit of the people’s republic and to die as soon as possible after retirement – all for the good of the people”.
Prosecution and trial clear violations of international law
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The prosecution of Lee Ming-che and the trial for allegedly threatening national security by criticizing the “people’s republic’s” communist party, the political system and the government is a gross violation of international law. The irony that the trend to “shut up dissidents” is especially prevalent in “people’s republics” can hardly be lost on anyone.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is clear and unambiguous with regard to these problems. Speech that is considered insulting, even speech that insults those in position of power, should never be the basis of a criminal prosecution. (emphasis added)
CH/L – nsnbc 29.03.2018
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2018/03/29/wife-of-taiwanese-rights-activist-lee-ming-che-jailed-in-china-vows-to-keep-fighting-for-husbands-release/
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