Niu Tengyu (right), a member of the “Vulgar Viki” operation and maintenance staff, was framed as the main offender and sentenced to 14 years in prison, and will be transferred to prison in the near future.
The defendants in the “Vulgar Viki” case were denied their appeals and their original sentences were upheld, including the main culprit Niu Tengyu, who will be transferred to prison to serve his sentence. Lawyers said this is a wrongful case from the beginning to the end; parents issued another joint statement to defend their rights, asking the central government to thoroughly investigate the grievances, to avoid leaving a shameful page for the history of China’s legal system. (By Wu Yitong/Cheng Wen)
The parents of the “Vulgar 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 be a great shame in the history of the legal system of the new China.
Earlier this month, Coco went south to visit the detention center and hospital where her son was being held to collect evidence of his torture, according to court documents. The Guangdong authorities were outraged and asked the public security authorities in Jiaozuo, Henan Province, to visit their home and threaten them. Other rights activists were also intimidated by the Guangdong authorities across the province.
Human rights lawyers Bao Longjun (second from left), Wang Yu (first from left), and Qin Chenshou (third from left), representing the “Vicious Vicky” case, went to the Guangdong Maoming Procuratorate last month to file a lawsuit against the public security officials for torture and the court for unfair sentencing in violation of procedures. (Bao Longjun’s Twitter picture)
On the other hand, last month 23rd, the case in Guangdong Province Maoming court in the second trial secretly sentenced, maintain the original sentence of the first trial. The family of the convicted man has since been prevented by law enforcement authorities from pursuing their appeal. The petition written by Niu Tengyu, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison, was even seized by the detention center. While the authorities prevented the man and his family from reversing the case, the second trial verdict was quickly implemented. Coco revealed that Niu Tengyu will soon be transferred from Guangdong to Yangjiang prison to serve his sentence.
I heard that Teng Yu was recently sent to prison, my heart is very heavy, very worried that after he went to prison, still escorted to prevent him to appeal, but also worried about his body after torture, and the finger is not timely treatment, will lead to lifelong disability, because my current body, I do not know if I can live to see the children.
The first detention center in Maoming, Guangdong, is currently detaining Niu Tengyu, and the staff said that the second trial verdict is a normal step to send to prison.
The staff of the detention center said: this has been the second final trial, the transfer away is also normal.
Some rights parents recently to the relevant departments of the detention center to deposit money for their children, found more than a dozen sentenced names in the system once disappeared, a number of parents went south to Guangdong detention center after the protest, the children’s names only regained.
The parents of the “Vicious Vicky” case issued another joint statement on Wednesday (18), counting the evil tactics used by Guangdong Maoming to threaten parents in order to prevent further exposure of the truth, and calling on the Communist Party to correct mistakes. (Courtesy of the parents)
Niu Tengyu’s lawyer, Bao Longjun, said the authorities are apparently going through the process step by step, but in reality this is a case of injustice from the beginning to the end, and 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 is 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. The boy Teng Yu was wrongly accused, which is a political case in itself, but we also have to do it, exposing the darkness of justice in this country, and people like Zhang Shuming should be nailed to the pillar of shame.
In May 2019, an overseas website exposed the personal information of Xi Jinping’s daughter Xi Mingze and brother-in-law Deng Jiagui, but the Guangdong Maoming Internet police, one of the units handling the case, arrested 24 members of the “Vulgar Wiki” in mainland China and forced them to confess their guilt under torture.
In late March, nine embassy human rights officials met with Niu Tengyu’s mother to learn more about the case. On the 23rd of last month, the Maoming Intermediate Court in Guangdong Province upheld the verdict in the second trial.
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