Az aktivisták bírálják a kínai emberi jogi aktivistaJiang Tianyong bűnösségét kimondó ítéletet

2017. augusztus 25./Phayul.com/TibetPress

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By Tenzin Dharpo

DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 25: The prosecution and the televised confession of the prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong who admitted to ‘inciting subversion to the state’ is a sham and a coerced act, said activist group International Tibet Network in a statement.

Jiang Tianyong, 46, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to trying to stifle Chinese Communist Party authority in a nationwide televised confession from his court proceedings in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province in southern China. “It was mainly about the bourgeois Western constitutional system. It certainly had a subliminal influence on me. It gave me ideas about overturning our country’s present political system and introducing their political system into our country,” Jiang was seen saying in the video, also shared on Weibo, China’s Twitter.

Rights groups and his family claim that the Chinese lawyer who represented clients in sensitive cases against the Chinese government was subjected to torture and intimidation since his disappearance in November last year. Penghsuan Lee, International Tibet Network’s East Asia Regional Coordinator said that “the trial of Jiang Tianyong was a sham. The wide publicity and staging of this trial is clearly intended to send a strong message to all of China’s citizens that the Party will not tolerate dissent. We express our support to his wife and friends in their efforts to secure his immediate release.”

In his career as human rights lawyer for over a decade, Jiang represented prominent activists such as Gao Zhisheng and the blind Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng as well as Tibetans in Tibet including Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche and Labrang Jigme Guri. In 2008, he publically offered legal services to Tibetans charged in the 14 March Uprising. A year later he was disbarred.

“We hope that international concern about Jiang’s disappearance will lead to his immediate release. China’s government has to fulfill its commitment to rule of law, and the prosecution of a human rights defender deserves substantial condemnation,” said Tenzin Jigdal, International Coordinator of Tibet Network.

Germany's ambassador to China said today in a statement said that fair trial under the circumstances is “impossible” for Jiang. The proceedings were "obviously prejudged through a 'confession' aired by Chinese TV before his trial had even begun,'' said Michael Clauss, and that "under these circumstances, a fair trial is impossible.''

The prosecution and the public court proceeding, many say, is a carefully choreographed drama to counter international criticism over the handling of China’s civil society by the communist party led government.