Subject: (Christian) E-mail 'subversion' may mean life in jail (fwd)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 080043 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Kerrie:
I suppose we are "preaching to the choir" when we send the following to
our group.
But!!! No-one (of international leaders) is a stronger supporter of the
Chinese Communist regime than the U.S. President..... Have you thought
about that???
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org................
...It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness...
.................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS...............
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:43:38 +1100
From: Kerrie Christian
To: leftlink
Subject: E-mail 'subversion' may mean life in jail
For those of us who appreciate the right to access to email and the
internet and to express our views fairly freely - the following article
is very alarming.
If you feel strongly about this issue the contact addresses for
officials in China are as follows :
Jiang Zemin Guojia Zhuxi
President of the People's Republic of China
Beijingshi
People`s Republic of China
Zhu Rongji
Premier, People's Republic of China
Guowuyuan
9 Xihuangchenggenbeijie
Beijingshi 100032
People`s Republic of China
fax: 86-10-6-512-5810
Qiao Shi Weiyuanzhang
Chairman, National People's Congress
Quanguo renmmin Daibiao Dahui
Great Hall of the People
Beijingshi
People`s Republic of China
Kerrie Christian
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Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9812/07/index.html
Monday, December 7, 1998
CHINA
E-mail 'subversion' may mean life in jail.....
Shanghai: A man accused of using the Internet to subvert the Chinese
state faces a possible life sentence after a four-hour hearing in a
Shanghai court.
The court is to announce its verdict against 30-year-old computer
engineer Lin Hai without further hearings.
The court was told that Lin sent e-mail addresses to a US-based
dissident publication.
Lin pleaded not guilty to the charge of inciting subversion, the
Information Centre of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China said.
During the closed-door hearing in Shanghai, Lin and his two lawyers
maintained that there was no political motive in his giving e-mail
addresses to the VIP Reference network. It was a commercial transaction
and Lin had no control over how the addresses were used.
Court documents said the group used Lin's data "to disseminate large
numbers of articles aimed at inciting subversion of state power and the
socialist system".
VIP Reference, one of many dissident publications that have sprung up
using the Internet, says it sends information to 250,000 e-mail accounts
in China from various e-mail addresses in the United States.
The Information Centre said Lin's wife, Ms Xu Hong, was planning to
protest outside the court on Friday, but was detained by the police for
six hours before and during the hearing.
She was released from custody after the hearing.
When contacted by telephone late on Friday, she said: "I still can't
speak now."
- Reuters
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html