- He is the first convicted for expressing an opinion outside of Chinese territory
- The sentence is also a pioneer in trying a non-Chinese citizen for criticizing the country
- Taiwán califica la decisión de "inaceptable" y "lamentable"
28.11.2017
EFE
A Chinese court has sentencedfive years in prison to the activist and teacherTaiwanese Lee Ming-che por "subversion of state power" through opinions and comments issued while outsideChina. The sentence meansel primer caso de extraterritorialidad en una condena a críticos de China y ha sido tildada por Taiwán de "inaceptable" y "lamentable".
Lee, of 42 years, He is the first non-Chinese citizen member of an NGO prosecuted in this countryand the first Taiwanese convicted of subversion against power in Beijing. The professor has announced that he will not appeal the decision of the Yueyang intermediate court (hunan province).
Li Ming-che has been detained in China since 19 March and pleaded guilty to subversion, but his wife, Li Ching-yu, ensures thatwas forced to plead guilty and has launched a campaign to secure his release.
Taiwán califica la sentencia de "inaceptable"
The Presidential Office of Taiwan has described"inaceptable" y "lamentable" la condena. "Difundir la democracia no es delito", and the condemnation of Lee for sharing his ideas about democracy with friends in China online as a sign of his interest in the development of democracy and civil society in China is unacceptable., said presidential spokesman Alex Huang, at a press conference.
La Presidencia taiwanesa ha instado a Pekín a "liberar a Lee Ming-che cuanto antes" and has indicated that the conviction"ha dañado seriamente" bilateral tiesy acusa de que atenta contra la creencia taiwanesa en "la libertad y democracia". According to Taiwan's Mainland China Affairs Council, las actividades de Ming-che "no suponen peligro alguno para la seguridad y estabilidad" from China, y además la decisión "da la espalda a los valores universales de democracia y derechos humanos" que "daña la imagen internacional china".
For your part, the executive secretary of the Taiwan Human Rights Association, Eeling Chiu, ha declarado a Efe que la sentencia "es ridícula: It is not just a blatant violation of human rights, sino que muestra la debilidad de un régimen que tiene que recurrir a esta represión para mantenerse en el poder".
