There’s not much I can add to this. It sounds too depressing to be true:
A retired worker from Shanghai will be tried on subversion charges for publishing Internet articles promoting democracy in China, a human rights organisation said yesterday.
One of 61-year-old Sang Jiancheng’s articles appealed to the Communist Party to protect the interests of retired workers and said corrupt officials needed to be eliminated from the system, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said.
This kind of thing, like the arrest of “stainless steel butterfly” Liu Di, is self-destructive. It does little to enhance the image of the New China the CCP is striving for, an image of a more enlightened, fairer and reform-minded country.
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By Winds of Change.NET
The Gweilo’s China Briefing: 2003-11-21
NOV 11/01 TOPICS: China’s crackdown on perceived internet dissent, its burgeoning AIDs crises, a first-hand report from the scene of recent anti-Japanese riots in Xi’an, the revival of a policy from the time of the Cultural Revolution, Hong Kong’s ongo…
November 21, 2003 @ 7:10 pm | Comment