The Truth About Li Lin’s 4-Year Conviction for Incitement

On February 10, 2018, Li Lin (occupation: electric power software engineer), a long-Time resident of the mainland with a household registration in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, came to visit his Family in Urumqi, Xinjiang, for the Spring Festival, and posted five messages involving the current situation in Xinjiang in the form of a diary he had written on Twitter in the previous six months.

The first entry describes the current state of local security checks.

Entry 2 describes the poor use of the local internet.

The third entry describes the removal of halal signs, with two pictures of the word “halal” and the logo removed.

Article 4 describes the current situation of the many police stations on the streets in the area and paraphrases the comments of others, with a small video of two police stations at a street corner.

Article 5 recounts views on the local cadres’ one-to-one poverty alleviation and twinning policies.

On February 20, 2018, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Lin was suddenly taken away by the police with a gun. They arrested, searched and took things without showing any documents or going through any procedures.

On February 21, 2018, the local public security bureau found that the five messages sent by Li Lin were disinformation and gave him a 10-day administrative detention penalty for “disturbing the order of public places. The local public security bureau found that the five messages posted by Li Lin were disinformation.

On March 3, 2018, the 10-day administrative detention period expired, and the five messages were found to be suspected of inciting ethnic division and ethnic discrimination and were directly transferred to criminal detention.

On August 10, 2018, Li Lin was arrested for “inciting subversion of state power”.

On December 5, 2018, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison for inciting subversion of state power.

The following is the main process by which the local public prosecution and law enforcement officials jointly framed the unjust case.

  1. Jurisdictional falsification: 2 local residences and 1 Xinjiang household registration were fictitiously given to Li Lin in the case file.

Li Lin’s domicile and place of residence were both in Shenyang, Liaoning, while the police officer in charge of the case made special notes in Urumqi, Xinjiang.

  1. Fraudulent investigation procedures. For example: (1) 10 days after losing his freedom, he could be summoned for exchange.

(2) It is surprising that a cell phone can be retrieved from him 10 days after losing his freedom.

3、Fake Li Lin’s signature on the Summons Certificate and Search Transcript, and get an unknown person named Yang Yang Dai to perjure himself on the Search Transcript, Seizure Decision Letter and Seizure List.

  1. Arrest people first, collect and produce illegal electronic evidence, and then file a case. That is, first hit the target, and then draw the circle.

5、Evidence falsification and fabrication of facts.

(1) Li Lin sent a total of 5 pieces of information involving *jiang, with a total of 8 comments, 21 retweets and 51 likes. He was accused and found to have sent 34 pieces of information involving *jiang, with a total of 347 comments, 1224 retweets and 2978 likes.

(2) Without evidence, and without the need for evidence, Li Lin was accused and found to have published and forwarded a large number of articles, pictures and videos inciting state power, causing bad influence both inside and outside of China, as well as insulting Xinjiang regional leaders, etc.

(3) There were four confessions in the whole case, and it is obvious from the writing alone that all of them were illegal.

(4) The Xiaomi cell phone and Xiaomi iPad, which were said to be the source of the screenshots, were unaccounted for during the investigation stage.

6, the prosecutor’s office in the “approval of arrest decision” after the public security reported the arrest, the prosecutor’s office before the arrest was over 4 months of detention to cover up to 4 days. (The law provides that: public security to approve the arrest, the procuratorate must make a decision within 7 days whether to approve the arrest)

  1. Liu Jinbo, the public prosecutor of Urumqi City Procuratorate, refused to read and meet with the lawyer I hired myself, so I had no choice but to switch to Tian Culture, a lawyer from Yingke (Urumqi) Law Firm, whom he recommended to me, to meet and read the file.

8, Tian told Li Lin and I respectively: the state public authority to determine the charge can not be changed, do not admit or heavy sentence!

9, illegal court session. October 31, 2018 Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court held a hearing on the case, refusing to observe the hearing. Tian’s lawyer and prosecutor Liu Jinbo told his mother separately that it was a closed hearing and could not be observed.

(1) At that time, Li Lin’s Parents entered the courtroom in advance, and the judge said: go out, you can’t observe.

(2) During the trial, Li Lin, who was highly myopic, was not allowed to wear glasses, leaving the bookish Li Lin handcuffed throughout, depriving him of even basic human rights.

(3) When faced with the prosecutor’s charges against Li Lin, Mr. Tian replied that he had no objection.

(4) The case of such a big charge had 13 pages of trial transcript, and the verdict recorded that the court examined and certified the evidence in 13 aspects, and the court session ended in less than half an hour.

(5) After the half-hour trial, his parents were allowed to enter the courtroom to meet with Li Lin for a short time. Inside the courtroom, his parents saw the prosecutor Liu Jinbo, a female prosecutor and four police officers, as well as two male judges, two bailiffs who were escorting Li Lin and lawyer Tian.

The trial record and the verdict recorded that the trial was attended by the public prosecutor Sharabaiti Elken and the presiding judge Deng Ying, but in fact they did not attend the trial.

As a result, the trial record reads: “Open court, 4 people in the audience”, and the verdict reads. “The case was heard in open session on October 31, 2018 by a collegial court formed in accordance with the law.”

10, the court, the public prosecutor used fake physical evidence, and the judge and public security officers vigorously cooperated.

(1) Because the Xiaomi cell phone and Xiaomi ioad, which were said to be the source of the screenshots, were “missing” during the investigation stage, they were not handed over as exhibits during the examination and prosecution stage and the trial stage. (1) Because the Xiaomi mobile phone and Xiaomi ioad, which were said to be the source of the screenshots, were “missing” during the investigation stage, they were not handed over as exhibits during the prosecution and trial stages.

(2) The three pieces of electronic exhibits produced by the prosecutor in court were inconsistent with the seized exhibits.

(3) On the 13th day after the trial, the public security officers dumped the evidence to Li Lin’s alleged family in the “Information Note”.

And it was clearly recorded in the previous “Electronic Evidence Inspection Work Record” of the Net Security Brigade that the physical evidence was claimed by the police officer in charge of the case, Fan Yuefeng, on February 22, 2018.

(4) Since the prosecutor has presented the physical evidence in court, however, on the 14th day after the trial, Judge Zhang Cheng went to the detention center to interrogate Li Lin about the whereabouts of all the physical evidence. This means that the judge knew very well that the prosecutor had used false exhibits in court.

Finally, the judge used the sentence of confiscation to cover up the fact that the public security officers destroyed or hid the exhibits and that the prosecutor used fake exhibits in court.

After the court closed the case, the Public Security issued the “List of Transfer with the Case” without any alleged criminal exhibits, except for a laptop that is not relevant to the case and is not returned to date.

  1. On December 5, 2018, Judge Zhang Cheng and clerk Li Hao went to the detention center and handed down the verdict to Li Lin. Li Lin filed an appeal on the spot.

12, The second written trial upheld the original verdict.

  1. In 2019, I went to the Xinjiang High Court several times to appeal, and each time the judge of the case court said: the leader of the trial court said that this charge does not allow appeals. They refused to accept my complaint materials.

14、In 2020, after I argued, the Xinjiang High Court received my petition and never gave the result, and after I asked many times, I was not allowed to enter the petition hall again. The bailiff said: My duty is to keep you out of the court.

  1. I have no way to sue. The relevant departments at all levels in Xinjiang pushed atrophy not to accept. I reflected to the central inspection, handed down and back to each specific case department.

On December 23, 2020, the Xinjiang High Court issued a “Notice of Dismissal of Complaint” to me.

The facts prove: we are the ironclad evidence is useless!

As the saying goes: if you walk too much at night, you always meet a ghost! They collaborated to create a fake case to persecute Li Lin, never thought that the full set of case file materials would fall into the hands of Li Lin’s mother, Li Xinhua.

Li Xinhua ID card: 650105196310020767

Phone: 13639955916,16699173396

Li Xinhua’s appeal for help for Li Lin on the Internet.

Li Lin was unjustly sentenced to 4 years for his words and has been detained in Urumqi No.1 Detention Center for 3 years.

Li Lin’s mother, Li Xinhua.

When I learned of this, I called the detention center 0991 4 in the morning of February 10, 2021 to request that Li Lin’s shackles be lifted immediately, the correctional cadres said that the regulations of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region stipulate that people in such cases should always wear shackles.

I never thought they had been reckless to such an extent!

I am Li Xinhua, the mother of Li Lin, who was convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” for four years, is a retired employee of Xinjiang Urumqi City, ID number: 650105196310020767. 650105196310020767, Tel: 136 3995 5916.

I. Events: Li Lin has lived in the mainland for a long time, and his account is in Shenyang. On February 10, 2018, Li Lin came to Xinjiang to visit his family for the Spring Festival, and bought a ticket to return to Shenyang on the 21st of this month. During that time, as he heard us and our visitors talking about the current situation in Xinjiang, he sent the following 5 messages related to Xinjiang, as he used to tweet every day.

  1. “Now the streets of Xinjiang have basically not checked the phone, but from the beginning of this year all Xinjiang accounts have to go to the Public Security Bureau to register fingerprints blood and iris. Security checks in public places and security checks in and out of urban areas remain the same, and there are fewer armed police on the streets than in the previous two years.”

2, “The current Xinjiang is blocked conventional VPN ports, and most VPN APPs are not available. Home network can use SS or App version, but like many provinces in the mainland will be regularly blocked. And cell phone network using SS or VPN will be completely disconnected, I tried to use Unicom cell phone routing to the provinces the same situation, with a period of time SS will be completely disconnected, need to disguise as HTTP traffic.”

3, “with the dome of the crescent moon and halal mark signs must be hidden related words and marks is also a recent policy, supermarkets sell goods with related marks must also be removed from the shelves, in addition there are also some rumors of the demolition of the mosque has not been confirmed in the field “.

  1. “Now there is a police station in Xinjiang 500 meters, and equipped with equipment and patrol cars, a retired employee said: this thing is called a convenient police station, we all call it a gun building, full of streets, really dare not think how much money the Communist Party in the end ” (In fact, some convenient police stations in Urumqi are only a few dozen meters apart, at that time, the private gun building called more common).

5, “can not make up for it, according to the current policy continues, ethnic conflicts will only be increasingly aggravated. What one-to-one poverty alleviation, cadres to identify relatives are look-alikes, simply can not play any role. The main thing is that the fear and inconvenience of living under high pressure is maddening, the slightest complaint and dissatisfaction, immediately shut in the study class. Even so, it is surprising that there are still people who do not think there is a problem with the policy at all, I have contacted people, there are people who say that for stability other are worth it”.

On August 10, 2018, Li Lin was arrested on charges of “inciting subversion of state power”. It turns out that they found six more political messages (see the verdict) from the tens of thousands of messages that Li Lin had sent to record his daily Life when he lived in the mainland for a long time, and together with the five previous messages, a total of 11 messages became incitement to subvert state power. The incriminating evidence.

On December 5, 2018, Li Lin was sentenced to four years in prison for “inciting subversion of state power.