Chinese pro-democracy activist Xu Zhiyong and human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi, who called for Xi Jinping‘s resignation, were recently charged with “inciting subversion of state power” to “subversion of state power,” according to the authorities. Lawyer Liang Xiaojun said the authorities must have put a lot of effort into the case, which will also involve many people. The two men are feared to face heavy sentences if they are convicted.
Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were arrested in connection with the 2019 Xiamen Party case and accused of being the main people involved. Lawyer Liang Xiaojun recently told Radio Free Asia that the deadline for additional investigation into the case had expired on the 19th, and that the case had been referred for prosecution, with the charge being upgraded from “inciting subversion of state power” to “subversion of state power.
Liang Xiaojun said, for the aggravation of the charge is quite unexpected, the charge is the public security handed to the procuratorate, the procuratorate is finally to what charge to the court prosecution, now do not know. At present, the lawyer team has arrived in Shandong detention center to apply to see the parties.
Liang Xiaojun revealed that as many as dozens of files involving two people, but because the case is related to the so-called “state secrets”, lawyers must first meet with the client, the client to confirm the commission, in order to access the files.
Liang Xiaojun asserted, “The Chinese Communist authorities must have done a lot of work, and they must have involved a lot of people, so they’ve got a lot of stuff out.”
He said, “We have not seen the people now, nor the dossier, and now we have to wait.”
The legal profession analyzes that the conviction of “inciting subversion of state power” and “subversion of state power” can be far apart, and this Time the crime is upgraded, probably from the heaviest 5 years to more than 10 years.
The lawyer’s team had applied to visit Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong in the detention center several times last year and were refused, when the system of the detention center did not even record the information of the two.
Ding Jiaxi’s wife, Luo Shengchun, said that since the last time the media reported that they were being held under an alias, the detention center now does not say that Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong cannot be found in the system. And Xu Zhiyong’s sister to deposit cash can also be deposited, it means that they still have these two people in the system. But what name they actually used only they know, at least the lawyer asked to meet these two people, they did not say that there are no these two people.
Xu Zhiyong is a prominent Chinese legal scholar and human rights campaigner who last year demanded that Communist Party leader Xi Jinping take responsibility for the Epidemic and step down; Xu and Ding Jiaxi were arrested in an inter-provincial police arrest in Shandong province on December 13, 2019, after attending a civic gathering in Xiamen with a number of dissidents from across the country to discuss current affairs and the future of China, and are considered to be the main people involved in the case. Inside sources say that Ding was tortured for a long time in the detention center.
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