Another Chinese Cyber-Dissident Jailed

Not to brag as much as give thanks:  it's nice to live in a place where you won't go to jail for having something to say. "Cyber-dissident" Zhang Jianhong (pen name, Li Hong) can go to jail for it, and is, for six years.

We can also be thankful phrases like "reeducation-through-work camp for counter-revolutionary propaganda" still sound to us like something out of a George Orwell fantasy.

Li Hong had already been to one such camp after the Tiananmen Square incident (incident, as in complete breakdown of humanity) in 1989. Li Hong is heading off to jail this time for writing over 100 articles and publishing them at Aiquinghai.net, of which he was the editor, and at Boxun, and The Epoch Times.

Li Hong was found guilty of "incitement to subvert the state's authority" as he called for political reform in the articles in question.

“This verdict is sadly yet another example of the judicial system being used by the political authorities,”
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