{"id":5066,"date":"2015-05-01T22:14:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T02:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2015-05-02T22:51:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T02:51:57","slug":"police-in-chinas-guangdong-move-ahead-with-activists-subversion-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/police-in-chinas-guangdong-move-ahead-with-activists-subversion-trial","title":{"rendered":"Police in China&#8217;s Guangdong Move Ahead With Activist&#8217;s Subversion Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/05\/image-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5067\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/05\/image-31-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"image (31)\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/05\/image-31-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/05\/image-31.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>2015-04-30<\/p>\n<p>Activist Su Changlan&#8217;s husband (C) is accompanied by two lawyers, Li Fang (L) and Wu Kuiming (R), in an undisclosed location on Nov 18, 2014.<br \/>\n(Photo courtesy of LiFangPing micro-channel.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are moving ahead <!--more-->with the subversion trial of women&#8217;s rights activist Su Changlan, who publicly supported Hong Kong&#8217;s Occupy Central<br \/>\npro-democracy movement, her husband said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Su was detained last October by police in Guandong&#8217;s Foshan city on suspicion of &#8220;incitement to subvert state power&#8221; after she took part in activities supporting Hong Kong&#8217;s Occupy Central pro-democracy movement.<\/p>\n<p>Her case was recently submitted to the local state prosecutor&#8217;s office, her lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan told RFA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My understanding is that it was submitted today, but I haven&#8217;t been able to get a meeting with [Su] yet,&#8221; Liu said. &#8220;We will have to wait until after the May 1 public holiday for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A volunteer for the New York-based Women&#8217;s Rights in China group, Su was initially detained last October, but her lawyers have been refused permission to meet with her twice.<\/p>\n<p>Liu said the transfer of Su&#8217;s case files to the procuratorate means that he should no longer need to seek official approval before visiting his client in detention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This applies, even in cases involving matters of state security,&#8221; Liu said. &#8220;So the detention center won&#8217;t have any excuse; they&#8217;ll have to arrange it within 48 hours of the request.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trial looks likely<\/p>\n<p>He said a trial now looks likely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that they have sent the case to the prosecutor means that the police think they have enough evidence to convict Su Changlan,&#8221; Liu said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Su&#8217;s husband Chen Dequan said his freedom-of-information lawsuit protesting a lack of information on his wife&#8217;s health was rejected by the Nanhai District People&#8217;s Court this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They said that the information I requested didn&#8217;t lie in the public domain, so they wouldn&#8217;t make it public,&#8221; Chen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have taken my wife, and I don&#8217;t know whether she has been forced to make a confession.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chen said he is extremely concerned for Su&#8217;s health and safety after seeing the treatment meted out to fellow Guangdong political activist Li Biyun, who fell foul of the authorities after she tried to stand as<br \/>\nan independent candidate in elections to her district People&#8217;s Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was already an incident here, when [Li Biyun] was in the detention center,&#8221; Chen said. &#8220;She was beaten up to the point where she couldn&#8217;t even walk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;I will be appealing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chen said Su is innocent of the charges against her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My wife would never try to incite people to overthrow the state,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I know her &#8230; She is very clear-headed about everything she does, and everything she does is to benefit the country and to promote its development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/china-suchanglan-04302015133624.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015-04-30 Activist Su Changlan&#8217;s  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/police-in-chinas-guangdong-move-ahead-with-activists-subversion-trial\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,45],"tags":[1130,1242],"views":5025,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5068,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions\/5068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}