AFP
7/07/2017
A Chinese activist was sentenced this Friday to four and a half years in prison after recounting the bloody repression in 1989 against the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square, a taboo subject in China, his lawyer informed.
Liu Shaoming, factory example, He had been detained since May 2015 after describing his experience of the protests on a US-based Chinese-language information website
On Friday he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison by the Intermediate People's Court of Canton (on), his lawyer told AFP, Wu Kuiming.
"Fue declarado culpable de incitación a la subversión", Wu stated.. "Las pruebas son los artículos publicados en línea, que escribió para recordar los acontecimientos".
Liu Shaoming will appeal the verdict, according to the magistrate.
China, that attempts to silence any debate on the events related to the protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, often detains activists or keeps them under surveillance.
In the early morning of 4 June 1989, after seven weeks of demonstrations to demand democratic reforms in China, Tens of thousands of soldiers backed by hundreds of tanks opened fire on the crowd until they reached Tiananmen Square.. The repression caused between several hundred and a thousand deaths.
Liu Shaoming had traveled to the Chinese capital to participate in the demonstrations.
"Es un preso de conciencia y tiene que ser puesto en libertad inmediatamente y sin condiciones. La única cosa de la que es culpable Liu Shaoming es de ejercer de forma legítima su libertad de expresión", William Nee estimated in a statement, China researcher at Amnesty International.
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