【大纪元7月14日讯】RSF：记者李元龙因在互联网上发表“颠覆性”文章被判刑两年
记者无国界对于中国西南部贵州省毕节市法院判处《毕节日报》记者李元龙两年徒刑并剥夺政治权力两年的判决表示愤慨。
该组织还谴责当地官方将其家庭作为人质，逼迫李在五月的一个庭审中向法庭书写“认罪书”的行为，该判决直到今天才宣布。
记者无国界说：“李不过是尽自己的记者职责，报导了中国农村最贫困的这个地区人们的经历的生活艰辛。他自己还发起基金帮助失学儿童返回学校。将这种有勇气和正直的人投入监狱令人愤慨。”
李元龙的律师李建强今天在六四天网网站上说，“该判决从法理上是完全不能接受的。毕节法院受到上级的指令，这是为什么他们延迟这么久才判决的原因。”他同时指出,不管怎样，“这一判决相对其他类似案件来说是比较轻的”他会同其家人讨论是否上诉的问题。
在李于2005年9月29日被逮捕后，有数月时间李的家人都没有他的任何消息。直到今年二月九日他才正式被起诉，可是其庭审却三次被延期。按照博讯网站一名记者的说法，贵州公安局需要这些时间准备起诉他的证据。
最后，据报导这个公安局为了逼迫李写“认罪书”绑架了他的妻子，在一个酒店房间里面关押了她10天，并且将其16岁的儿子关押了7天。在这个20，000字的认罪书中，他承认“诬蔑社会主义制度”。该份文件在庭审中被检方引用。
李在互联网上发布多篇文章批评当前中国社会的缺点，并且要求更多的自由民主。他的两篇文章，《在思想上加入美国国籍》、《生的平凡死的可悲》被中国共产党认为是特别“恶劣的”。
该党还批判李元龙的报导。他的夫人去年一月说“李元龙采访了许多没有入学的儿童，他的采访报导引起了社会的巨大反响，并且为失学儿童返回学校学习凑集到了资金……然而，当地党组织无理禁止发表他进行的访问，指责他的报导给这个社会抹黑”
——转自六四天网
注：记者无国界授权六四天网翻译，请以英文文本为准。
China 13 July 2006 RSF
Journalist Li Yuanlong gets two years in prison for “subversive” Internet articles
Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay at the sentence of two years in prison and two years loss of civil rights handed down today by a court in Bijie in the southwestern province of Guizhou on journalist Li Yuanlong of the Bijie Ribao daily newspaper for “inciting subversion of the state” in articles he posted on the Internet.
The organisation also condemned the way the authorities took Li’s family hostage to make him write a “confession” for the trial, which was held in May although the verdict was not issued until today.
“Li just did his job as a journalist by reporting on the hardships experienced by the poorest sectors of the population in the Chinese countryside,” Reporters Without Borders said. “He even raised funds to enable children to go back to school. It is an outrage that a person of such courage and integrity is being sent to prison.”
Li’s lawyer, Li Jianqiang, said today on 64Tianwang : “The verdict and the entire judicial procedure are completely senseless. The Bijie court was accountable to higher authorities, which is the reason they took so long to issue a verdict.” He added that, despite everything, “this sentence is relatively light compared with other similar cases” and that he would discuss the possibility of an appeal with the family.
Li’s family spent several months without any news of him following his arrest on 29 September 2005. He was finally formally charged on 9 February, but then his trial was postponed three times. According to a journalist writing for Boxun, the Guizhou Public Security Bureau needed all this time to prepare a case against him.
In the end, the bureau reportedly kidnapped his wife and held her in a hotel room for 10 days and detained his 16-year-old son for a week in order to force him to write his “confession,” a 20,000-word document in which he admitted to “defaming the socialist system.” It was cited by the prosecution during the trial.
Li posted many essays on the Internet in which he criticised the shortcomings of contemporary Chinese society and called for more freedom and democracy. Two of his essays, entitled “Becoming American in Spirit” and “The Banal Nature of Life and the Lamentable Nature of Death,” were considered particularly “serious” by the Communist Party of China.
The party also criticised his reporting. “Li Yuanlong interviewed many poor children who were not getting any schooling,” his wife said last January. “The publication of his reports had a big impact and helped collect fund to pay for them to go back to school (…) The local party nonetheless banned him from publishing his interviews, accusing him of showing society in a negative light.”
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