The UN should be spending it's time demanding Wei be set free rather than honoring a North Korean monster. The World is silent because they don't want to offend the Chinese rulers and not be allowed to open a factory in China. Let you and I not forget this individual. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere:
A Chinese court has sentenced veteran democracy activist Chen Wei to nine years in jail for "inciting subversion of state power" in what human rights groups say is the harshest sentence yet in a near year-long crackdown on dissent.
The case against Chen, a former student leader who was first jailed after the 1989 Tianamen Square uprising, was based on four online essays he wrote calling for political reforms. Suining intermediate court in Sichuan province took two and a half hours to reach a guilty verdict.
"We presented a full defence of the case, but we were interrupted often, and none of what we said was accepted by the court," his lawyer, Liang Xiaojun, said after the verdict. Chen was not allowed to make a statement during the trial. As he was hurried out of the courtroom, he called out: "I am not guilty! Constitutional democracy will win, dictatorship will be defeated!" He was also sentenced to two years deprivation of political rights once he completes his sentence.Full article
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