Cristy Li

China Hangzhou Intermediate Peoples Court sentenced 59 year old human rights activist Zhu Yufu to 7 years in prison and 3 years deprivation of political rights for “inciting subversion of state power.”

Zhu’s wife  Jian Hangli and their son Zhu Ang attended the court hearing which lasted but for 20 minutes.

Zhu Ang told HRIC “Our family absolutely can not accept this ruling–the authorities are outrageous and arbitrary…My father is nearly 60 years old, in poor health, putting him in jail for seven years is too inhumane, too cruel.”

One of Zhu’s Defense Attys Li Dunyong said, “This is politics not law.”

More here Zhu Yufu Sentenced to 7 Years for Online Poem

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After her father was given a life sentence for no proven wrongdoing Wang Ting advertised herself as a ‘Mistress’ to any government official that is willing to uphold justice and set her father free.

Very quickly the desperate appeal received 142,000 hits and over 2,000 comments from Netizens on China’s second largest social media site, QQ.com

The 25 November post said, “My name is Wang Ting, college student in Liaoning, Anshan City. My father has been illegally sentenced for a crime he never committed. We have expended all our resources in vain to restore justice. Finally I make an appeal: If any high ranking official can come forward to uphold justice for my father, I’m willing to become his mistress.”

To evidence her father’s innocence Wang Ting uploaded 17 pages of documents and left her cell phone number adding, “Is this society really dark? State officials seem to care only about making money and use their power indiscriminately on innocent persons.”

Rest here from Epoch Times

Xiao Ling Imprisoned in Orphanage

Xiao Ling Abandoned by Parents sent to Zhongshan Welfare Home

(ifeng.com –Chinese)

Xiao-Ling abandoned by his family when he was only 1.50 years old after they discovered that he was an HIV carrier–for the past three years, Xiao Ling has been imprisoned, living an isolated life at an orphanage in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province.

More here from Ministry of Tofu

Residents of a Chinese Nursing Home

Deplorable Living Conditions Inside China Nursing Home

More photos here from Tianya (Chinese)

H/T: Ministry of Tofu

Well known professional model Cheng Yuting and now Independent Candidate for Peoples Congress holding a book (Interpretation of China’s Election Law of National and Local Level Peoples Congress) which has become a popular reference book for Independent Candidates.

Independent Candidates in China have suffered setbacks in their attempt to bring about change from within–On the 06 October, Want China Times reported that two Independent Candidates in the City of Foshan, Guangdong Province were arrested after being elected as Township Representatives of the National Peoples Congress in September for allegedly ‘sabotaging’ the elections.

Cheng Yuting Obstructed Running as Independent Candidate (Chinese)