Despite calls from human rights defenders, la periodista Gao Yu, of 71 years, internationally recognized, She was sentenced this Friday to 7 años de cárcel por divulgar "sercretos de Estado" according to a Beijing court. Un ejemplo de la "persecución política" of the Chinese regime against those who defend freedom of expression, NGOs such as Amnesty International denounce.
The harsh sentence inflicted on Gao Yu confirms the repression of which many reformist intellectuals are victims in China, considered by the regime of President Xi Jinping as dangerous for the maintenance of the Communist Party in power.
Former deputy editor-in-chief of Economics Weekly magazine, the eminent journalist Gao Yu, of 71 years, was the first winner in 1987 with the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize.
El tribunal de Pekín informó que la condenó a siete años de prisión por "haber transmitido secretos de Estado a extranjeros". According to the NGO Human Rights Watch, He is accused of having sent to a website based in the United States an internal document of the Communist Party that advocates greater censorship of reformist ideas..
Fragile health, Gao Yu appeared in November before a court to which the international press did not have access. She had been arrested at the end of April 2014 in the midst of a campaign by the Chinese government against human rights activists in the face of the imminent 25 anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.
A blow to freedom of expression
"Estamos muy decepcionados con esta sentencia porque carece de justicia", his lawyer reacted this Friday, Shang Baojun, which indicated Gao Yu's intention to appeal
"Esta sentencia no es nada más que una persecución política flagrante", opined William Nee, China expert from the NGO Amnesty International. "Es víctima de una ley sobre los secretos de Estado arbitraria y de formulación vaga, que sirve para reprimir a los militantes de la libertad de expresión", Nee emphasized.. The organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) llamó por su parte a la comunidad internacional a "no firmar un cheque en blanco a Xi Jinping en aras de los intereses económicos".
(Con AFP)
