Comments on: Update on China Internet Censorship http://wuyibing.com/114/update-on-china-internet-censorship.html Reviews, Notes, Journals and Comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:35:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Forager http://wuyibing.com/114/update-on-china-internet-censorship.html#comment-27 Forager Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:16:52 +0000 http://wuyibing.com/114/update-on-china-internet-censorship.html#comment-27 Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:06 AM ET BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese Internet writer has been charged with attempting to "subvert state power" for backing a movement by exiled dissidents to hold free elections for a new democratic government, his lawyer said on Thursday. Yang Tianshui, 45, faces up to 15 years in prison for posting essays on the Internet supporting the "Velvet Action of China", Attorney Li Jianqiang said by telephone. Named after the "Velvet Revolution" that peacefully overthrew communism in the former Czechoslovakia, the movement held an online ballot for government leaders last year. But it attracted scant interest, with just over 500 people casting a vote. The trial of Yang, who has been in custody since last December, is due to be in Nanjing, capital of the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu, in May. If convicted, Yang, a member of the China chapter of International PEN, would be the second writer to be jailed this year. At least five writers were jailed for up to 10 years last year as part of a government crackdown on free speech, according to the China chapter of International PEN, an association founded in Britain in 1921 to defend freedom of speech. Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:06 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese Internet writer has been charged with attempting to “subvert state power” for backing a movement by exiled dissidents to hold free elections for a new democratic government, his lawyer said on Thursday.

Yang Tianshui, 45, faces up to 15 years in prison for posting essays on the Internet supporting the “Velvet Action of China”, Attorney Li Jianqiang said by telephone.

Named after the “Velvet Revolution” that peacefully overthrew communism in the former Czechoslovakia, the movement held an online ballot for government leaders last year. But it attracted scant interest, with just over 500 people casting a vote.

The trial of Yang, who has been in custody since last December, is due to be in Nanjing, capital of the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu, in May.

If convicted, Yang, a member of the China chapter of International PEN, would be the second writer to be jailed this year.

At least five writers were jailed for up to 10 years last year as part of a government crackdown on free speech, according to the China chapter of International PEN, an association founded in Britain in 1921 to defend freedom of speech.

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