Lijun Jiang

Lijun Jiang (Chinese: 姜力钧, b. 1965) is a Chinese freelance writer who has been detained by the Chinese government since November 2002 for posting articles on the Internet which the government considered subversive. He is a native of Tieling in Liaoning.

The articles written by Jiang included an open letter to the Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which called for democratic reform.

Jiang was detained on November 6, 2002 and formally arrested on December 14, 2003 for “Internet writing and publishing dissident articles”. He was charged with “Inciting subversion of the state power”. On November 28, 2003 the no.2 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing found Jiang guilty and sentenced him to imprisonment for four years, and deprivation of political rights for one year. [cite news | url = http://www.penchinese.net/en/wipc/jianglijun.htm | title = Writers in Prison (China) |access date = August 2, 2006 | publisher = Independent Chinese Pen Centre ] Since this time Jiang has being held in Jinzhou Prison (锦州监狱) in Liaoning.

A draft email found on his Yahoo page containing proposals for a more democratic China was the principal evidence against him. Writing this draft was considered by the Government as taking part in “subversive activities that aim to undermine the authority of the Communist Party”. [ [http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/faq/22/Once_again:_who_is_censoring_in_China?_ Frequently asked questions] , greatfirewallofchina.org, Accessed 2007-10-08]

In April 2006, Reporters Without Borders, which has been actively seeking Jiang's release, revealed that Yahoo! may have aided Chinese authorities in convicting Jiang by providing information about Jiang's email accounts on its servers in Hong Kong. [cite news | url = http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17180 | title = Yahoo ! implicated in third cyberdissident trial |date = 19 April 2006 | publisher = Reporters sans frontiers ] .

Other cases

Other cases involving political prisoners in the People's Republic of China where information had been provided by Yahoo! are Shi Tao, Li Zhi, and Wang Xiaoning.

ee also

*Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China
*Chinese Wikipedia
*Dissident
*Golden Shield Project
*Human rights in the People's Republic of China
*Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China
*Internet in the People's Republic of China
*List of Chinese dissidents
*List of notable websites blocked in the People's Republic of China
*List of words censored by search engines in the People's Republic of China
*Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China
*Political dissidents

References

External links

* [http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/19/yahoo-semel-china-cx_po_0419autofacescan10.html Forbes article]
* [http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/73798 Yahoo implicated in Jiang Lijun's arrest] - IFEX