The defendants in the “Vulgar Wiki” case appealed the decision to uphold the original verdict, including the main offender Niu Tengyu, who will be transferred to prison to serve his sentence. Lawyers say this is a wrongful case from the beginning to the end; parents again issued a joint statement to defend their rights, demanding the central government to thoroughly investigate the grievances and avoid leaving a shameful page in the history of China’s legal system.
The case of “Vulgar Wiki”, which has been under litigation for nearly two years, was adjudicated in secret at the second trial in Maoming Court of Guangdong Province on the 23rd of last month, and the original verdict of the first trial was upheld. The family of the convicted man later complained that law enforcement agencies had joined forces to prevent him from continuing his complaint. A petition written by Niu Tengyu, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison, was also seized by the detention center.
Niu Tengyu’s mother, Coco, told the station Wednesday (19) that Niu Tengyu will soon be transferred from Guangdong to Yangjiang prison to serve his sentence.
The company’s mother, Coco, said: “I heard that Teng Yu was recently sent to prison, my heart is very heavy, very worried that after he went to prison, or custody to prevent him from going up to appeal, but also worried that after the torture of his body, and the finger is not treated in time, will lead to lifelong disability, because my current body, I do not know if I can live to see the child.
The first detention center in Maoming, Guangdong, where Niu Tengyu is currently detained, is making staff say that the second trial verdict sent to prison is a normal step.
The staff of the detention center said: this has been the second final trial, the transfer is also normal, this situation is not clear to me.
Niu Tengyu’s lawyer, Bao Longjun, said that the authorities apparently follow the procedures, but in fact this is a wrongful case from the beginning to the end. The lawyer will continue to sue the judge of the second trial, Zhang Shuming, and the police who tortured him to extract a confession.
Bao Longjun said: Teng Yu estimated to be transferred to prison, in fact, the whole case is a false case, from its evidence is not possible to find Niu Teng Yu guilty; the second point of the procedure is a serious violation of the law. The retrial stage is definitely the implementation of criminal charges against Zhang Shuming and others. Teng Yu the boy was wrongly accused, this is a political case in itself, but we also have to do, to expose the darkness of justice in this country, people like Zhang Shuming should be nailed to the pillar of shame.
Recently, some rights parents went to the relevant departments of the detention center to deposit money for their children, found that the names of more than a dozen sentenced people in the system once disappeared, a number of parents went south to the Guangdong detention center to protest before the children’s names were restored.
The parents of the “Vicious Wiki” case issued another joint statement on Tuesday (18), accusing the authorities of covering up the truth of the matter through various means of inter-provincial suppression, and investigating whether the rights parents are in collusion with foreign forces, property status, etc. The parents appealed to the local public security authorities not to cooperate with the Guangdong authorities, and asked the central government to order a thorough investigation into the whole case.
Coco, a representative of the family and Niu Tengyu’s mother, denounced the Guangdong authorities for creating an unjust case and leaving a shameful page in the history of China’s legal system.
Coco said: Maoming has been discrediting the country by covering up the crime, and this case will become a strange shame in the history of the new Chinese legal system, we must turn this case over.
In May 2019, an overseas website exposed the personal information of Xi Jinping’s daughter Xi Mingze and brother-in-law Deng Jiagui, but one of the units handling the case, the Guangdong Maoming Internet Police, arrested 24 members of the “Vulgar Wiki” on the mainland and tortured them to make them confess to the crime.
Earlier this month, Niu Tengyu’s mother visited the detention center and hospital where her son was being held to collect evidence of his torture. Guangdong authorities were outraged and asked the public security authorities in Jiaozuo, Henan Province, to visit her home and threaten her. Other rights activists have also been intimidated by Guangdong authorities across the province.
In late March, nine human rights officials from embassies in China met with Niu Tengyu’s mother to learn about the case. On the 23rd of last month, the Maoming Intermediate Court in Guangdong Province upheld the original verdict in the second trial.
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