According to the China Rights Defense Network, Bao Longjun, the lawyer representing Niu Tengyu, the main victim of the “Vicious Wiki Case,” went to the Maoming City Procuratorate in Guangdong Province on April 19 to file another complaint against Niu Tengyu’s torture.
Just last week, on April 15, Bao, along with several other lawyers including Xie Yang, applied to the Maoming Municipal Court for recusal of the judge presiding over Niu Tengyu’s case.
In 2019, Niu and other members of the website were arrested by Chinese police.
In February, Niu was convicted of “provoking and provoking trouble” (8 years), “infringing personal information” (5 years), and “illegal business operation” (2 years), and was finally sentenced to He was sentenced to 14 years in prison and fined 130,000 RMB.
According to a report on the Rights Defense Network, Niu Tengyu was subjected to prolonged torture to extract a confession between December 10, 2019 and January 20, 2020, and was hung and beaten to the point of disability, eventually succumbing to the punishment. Niu Tengyu and the other defendants in the case have appealed, but it is highly likely that the court of second instance will uphold the original verdict.
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