Niu Tengyu, 22, who was accused of leaking personal information about Xi Jinping’s daughter Xi Mingze, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday in the absence of the defendant, his lawyer and his family, according to the Central News Agency. Niu Tengyu’s mother said it was a case of heavenly injustice, saying grassroots officials playing with the law “can only be a kind of advanced blackness against President Xi.”
In May 2019, after the personal information of Xi Jinping’s daughter Xi Mingze and Xi Jinping’s brother-in-law Deng Jiagui was disclosed by the overseas websites ‘Red Bank Foundation’ and ‘Chinawiki’, the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Public Security then set up a task force. The Guangdong Maoming cyber police investigating the case, unable to catch the overseas exposer, turned to a major effort to arrest members of the mainland Chinese internet ‘vicious wiki’ who shared links to the two previous websites.
On December 30, 2020, the Maonan District Court of Maoming City, Guangdong Province, convicted 24 people related to the ‘Vulgar Wiki’ website in a first instance, with Niu Tengyu considered the main culprit and sentenced to 14 years, and the rest sentenced to prison terms ranging from 1-4 years, respectively, when Niu was only 20 years old and considered a computer genius.
According to ‘Apple Daily’, the defendant’s family accused the case of being a frame-up by the Maoming police, who were unable to arrest the aforementioned overseas website hosts, and went out of their way to ask ‘Vulgar Wiki’ to take their place, and to force them to do so. The police also forced ‘Vulgar Wiki’ technical volunteer Niu Tengyu to admit to being the “main culprit” and accused him of “provoking and provoking trouble”, “infringing on citizens’ personal information He was charged with “provoking and provoking trouble,” “infringing on citizens’ personal information,” and “illegal operation,” and was sentenced to 14 years.
Niu Tengyu, who was convicted in the first trial by “black and evil forces,” received a heavy sentence (photo provided by Niu Tengyu’s mother)
The Voice of America reported that the case has attracted widespread international attention, and on March 30, Niu Tengyu’s mother, Coco, met with diplomats from nine Western countries responsible for human rights issues. The diplomats were from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the European Union. During the meeting, they expressed concern about Niu Tengyu’s case and asked her what she wanted. Niu Tengyu’s mother said, “I just want to convey this truth to the first leader of the country, so that he knows that these children were indeed wrongly accused. The authorities have shown no sign of trying to correct the situation, but rather suppressing the parents. Blocked several parent groups and then threatened each parent. They were told to cooperate with the so-called stability maintenance, not to speak to the foreign media, not to cry out for justice. Then threatened lawyers. The lawyer of Niu Tengyu has been replaced by five, all threatened and not allowed to plead not guilty.”
Niu Tengyu’s mother also said that Niu Tengyu has not confessed to the crime and that the investigators have used torture to force him to confess and humiliate him: “He was put in a small dark room, hung up in handcuffs, with his toes on the ground, and beaten with a whip. Sometimes he passed out after one or two hours of beating. Then wax was dripped on his body.”
Niu Tengyu’s mother said after learning that the court had secretly pronounced the case on the 23rd that the case was too unjust, “I didn’t think the second trial would still not correct the mistake, and all 24 children, including my children, are scapegoats.” She believes that Xi Jinping himself proposed to follow the rule of law, but grassroots officials have been covering up the mistake, playing with the law, and is “senior black” to Xi Jinping.
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