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Cyber-dissident gets heavy jail term after unfair trial
Reporters Without Borders 无国界记者 | 25 March 2011
Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that cyber-dissident Liu Xianbin was sentenced to ten years in jail today on a charge of inciting subversion of state authority after his right to a proper legal defence was repeatedly violated.
Arrested on 28 June 2010 and held at the Suining detention centre in the southwestern province of Sichuan, Liu had access to just one of his lawyers, Ma Xiopeng, for a single meeting on 5 November 2010 (see the release).
Ma learned of the date of his client’s trial just four days in advance and so had little time to prepare the case. The trial itself was a sham that lasted just a few hours, during which the defence was constantly interrupted.
Aged 43, Liu has been convicted on subversion charges twice in the past and has already spent 12 years behind bars. He is one of the founders of the banned China Democracy Party and is a signatory of the Charter 08 manifesto, which Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo helped to draft.
He was arrested last year for writing articles calling for reforms that were posted on the Internet.
Reporters Without Borders calls for a review of the trial as the rights of the defence were not respected. The conviction should be overturned and Liu should be freed without delay.
China jails more cyber-dissidents than any other nation and is on the list of “Enemies of the Internet” which Reporters Without Borders updated on 12 March.
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中国
Reporters Without Borders 无国界记者 | 2011年 3月25经过极不公正的诉讼，一名异见者被判重刑
2011年3月25日，网络异见者刘宪斌因“煽动颠覆国家政权”罪 被判十年徒刑，无国界记者表示震惊。
诉讼过程彻底侵犯了辩护权利。2010年6月28日，刘宪斌被捕后在四川遂宁看守所遭拘押，他仅被允许和律师马晓鹏于11月5日（详见公告）见面一次。律师在庭审前四天才得知开庭日期，没有多少时间准备辩护。在这场持续几个小时的庭审闹剧期间，辩护方的发言持续被打断。
刘宪斌，43岁，已经度过了十二年的监狱生活，每次的罪名都是一样。他是在中国遭禁的中国民主党创建人之一，曾和因在网上发表文章要求民主改革而被囚的诺贝尔和平奖得主刘晓波一同签署过《08宪章》。
无国界记者要求推翻这次无视辩护权的庭审判决，放弃对刘宪斌的指控并将其立即释放。
中国是世界上最大的网络异见者监狱，在无国界记者3月12日出版的“网络敌人”名单中榜上有名。
Source:
Asia-Pacific Desk
Reporters Without Borders
Paris - France
33 1 44 83 84 70
http://en.rsf.org/asia,2.html
