Media News - Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Chinese dissident on trial after using Skype to send poem
Chinese prosecutors cited a poem and messages sent on Skype in the trial of a dissident, his son and his lawyer said, in the latest case highlighting the Communist party's drive to silence political challengers. Veteran activist Zhu Yufu faced trial on Tuesday in Hangzhou, where police arrested him in April and charged him with "inciting subversion of state power", according to his lawyer, Li Dunyong. The court did not deliver its verdict straight away. But Zhu, 60, appears likely to follow other Chinese dissidents who have received stiff prison terms from the party-run judiciary on subversion charges. In Zhu's case, the prosecutors cited his poem, It's Time, as well as text messages he sent using the Skype online chat service, said Li. There was no suggestion Skype helped police to collect evidence, he said. "They took his computer away from his home and went through it," he said. "His internet contacts and password were saved on it, with automatic access, and when the police accessed it they could open the records of text messages saved on Skype. He had not erased the records." Skype's online telephone and messaging service has become popular among Chinese activists as a cheap and relatively secure way to communicate. (The Guardian)
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