As the fallout from the “Vulgar Wiki” case, in which 24 people were sentenced to prison for disclosing the personal information of Xi Jinping‘s daughter and brother-in-law, continues, the families of those sentenced have broken their days of silence and accused the public security authorities in Maoming, Guangdong province, of framing the case. The families of those sentenced broke their silence for days, accusing the public security authorities in Maoming City, Guangdong Province, of framing the case.
The Maonan District Court in Maoming City, Guangdong Province, sentenced 24 young people to 14 years in prison for their role in a cyber case in which Niu Tengyu, 20, was accused of being the “main perpetrator.
The allegedly highly politicized case began when the personal information of Xi Jinping’s daughter Xi Mingze and Xi Jinping’s brother-in-law Deng Jiagui was made public. The mothers of Niu Tengyu and the other sentenced men are planning to appeal their sentences.
Niu Tengyu’s mother pointed out to the station that the authorities had created a political case because of the leaked information about Xi and Deng. When it was impossible to arrest the person in charge of the website outside of China, the police in charge of the case in Maoming, Guangdong Province, went out of their way to replace the actual “Chena Wiki” with “Vulgar Wiki” and arrested a large number of “Vulgar Wiki” members. The arrest of a large number of “vulgar wiki” members was presented to the central government as a gift for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, and the Maoming police were subsequently honored.
Niu Tengyu’s mother said: My son was arrested in early August 2019, because Xi Mingze’s photos were uploaded to the “Chinas (wiki)” website, which was discovered by the central government after the establishment of a task force, and then a large number of police forces were deployed across the country to arrest these members, but after a rigorous trial they were all innocent, and police around the country gave release. Only the police in Maoming wanted to take credit for the case, so they framed “Vulgarity.com” (meaning “Vulgarity Wiki”) and arrested all the members of “Vulgarity.com”. He said he offered a National Day gift and reported to the Ministry of Public Security that he had “successfully cracked a big case of a vicious group colluding with anti-China forces”.
Niu Tengyu grew up in a single-parent Family and followed his mother to live in Jiaozuo, Henan province. He dropped out of school at age 13 due to school registration problems, then taught himself computer knowledge and won third place in the Xi’an China Network Security Skills Competition in 2014. Convinced that her son would never do anything illegal, Niu’s mother condemned the authorities’ use of torture to extract confessions.
These children are not the ones who uploaded the photos, they are the scapegoats,” said Niu’s mother. They find evidence for these children and deprive them of their human rights, just like the Nazi concentration camps. They force them to confess every day, threaten and intimidate them. …… Especially Niu Tengyu, he confessed to being the main culprit and he said I am not the main culprit. He was starved, and he was beaten so brutally that he fainted several times, and after he fainted, he was poured with cold water and made to admit that he was the main culprit.
Chen Zhuanchuang, a member of the Chinese Democratic Party who lives in New York, said that in addition to the “provocation and disturbance” charge, the authorities have convicted 24 people for “leaking citizens’ personal privacy” and “human flesh search” is common on the Chinese Internet. “The case was politicized simply because it involved information about Xi Jinping’s family.
Chen Bunchron said: Because the case involved relatives of Xi Jinping, the top leader of the Chinese Communist Party, one is his daughter’s ID card; one is the information of his brother-in-law Deng Jiagui, the case happened as a direct political matter.
Chen also pointed out that the case also reflects that no one is safe under China’s centralized digital power, and that the biggest violators of citizens’ privacy are the Chinese Communist authorities. He also pointed out that the case is a concoction of the main culprit, and that there are many problems with the procedure and injustice of the case.
The lawyer, who wishes to remain anonymous, believes that “Vulgar Wiki” and other websites have not been punished by the judiciary for years for violating citizens’ privacy, but only after Xi Jinping’s family members were involved in the case, which is a political case. Even if the client did upload the personal information of citizens, the punishment should be based on the lawyer, not a heavy sentence of political revenge.
Several lawyers who represented the case have withdrawn due to pressure from the authorities, and the case has now been sent to the court of second instance, where several human rights lawyers will be appointed to file an appeal in the future.
As early as October 2019, Chinese official media reported that police in several parts of China had uncovered cases of “anti-China” and “China-hating” information being viewed on the Internet, accusing the “Vulgar Wiki” website of having set up servers outside of China. The “vile wiki” website was set up with servers outside of China and was full of “insulting and reactionary anti-China remarks, distorting history and reality, and a place for elitist Japanese elements to revel in” and had a large amount of “illegally obtained personal information of citizens” on the website. The official report did not disclose the contents of the case involving Xi’s family.
It is alleged that the information about Xi Mingze and Deng Jiagui was first obtained from the “Chinawiki” website; subsequently, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of State Security set up the “1902136” special case and handed it over to local police to handle the case, with the Maonan Internet Police Brigade in Maoming, Guangdong Province, also being one of the units handling the case.
Later, Niu Tengyu, who had only made more than 200 effective “vicious wiki” entries, was named the main offender and charged with “provoking and provoking trouble”; two more charges of “infringing personal information” and “illegal business operation” were added before the trial began on December 30 last year. Niu was sentenced to 14 years in prison and a fine of 130,000 yuan for two additional counts of “infringement of personal information” and “illegal business operation.
Since 2014, netizens in mainland China and overseas have built and operated three major online platforms known as the “Vulgar Circle,” including “Vulgar Wiki,” “Chinawiki” and “Red Bank Foundation”. “On its website, Vulgar Wiki emphasizes that its purpose is to “expose and record the facts.
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