I’ve gone ahead and created my first Wiki page, which not surprisingly is for the New Youth 4. (One problem: I didn’t capitalize the “y” in the title, and now I don’t know if I can edit it. Help?)
The link is here. Any any all help is appreciated in updating/expanding/improving what is already there. I aim to pick away at it slowly and make it as comprehensive as this site, so if I’m slagging off, please dive right in.
I will be writing more about this topic in the new week or so, but for now, here’s the relevant section from China’s criminal law code dealing with “Crimes of Endangering National Security”:
Article 105. Whoever organizes, plots, or acts to subvert the political power of the state and overthrow the socialist system, the ringleaders or those whose crimes are grave are to be sentenced to life imprisonment, or not less than 10 years of fixed-term imprisonment; active participants are to be sentenced from not less than three years to not more than 10 years of fixed-term imprisonment; other participants are to be sentenced to not more than three years of fixed-term imprisonment, criminal detention, control, or deprivation of political rights.
Whoever instigates the subversion of the political power of the state and overthrow the socialist system through spreading rumors, slandering, or other ways are to be sentenced to not more than five years of fixed-term imprisonment, criminal detention, control, or deprivation of political rights; the ringleaders and those whose crimes are grave are to be sentenced to not less than five years of fixed-term imprisonment.
Thanks (yet again) to our friends at Mideast Youth, we now have an online petition that allows individuals to take a small but important step to signal to the Chinese leadership that the imprisonment of Chinese citizens, for the simple crime of peacefully discussing reform, an action sanctioned by China’s own Constitution, is unconscionable and must end now.
Please, take 30 seconds to sign the petition and then pass it along to your friends. If you have a blog, please blog about it.
We’ve put a permanent link up in the top right hand corner of the website as well.
