China Releases Cyber Dissident

Ridgelift writes "Reuters UK has the story on the release of three 'cyber dissidents' just one week before a trip by visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to the United States. One of the dissidents, 23-year-old Liu Di, aka the 'Stainless Steel Mouse,' had been detained since November 2002. She wrote political satire about the ruling Communist Party and posted messages in Internet chatrooms calling for the release of online dissidents. She was never formally charged, but kept at Qincheng Prison for over a year."

Comments

Re:Truly

[benna]

We have political prisoners here to. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier are two good examples.

How can a civilized country act like that?

[ArcticCelt]

What a bunch of villains! Putting in jail those people without bringing charges and without given them a right to a lawyer. How can a civilized country act like that in the XXI century?

Wait a minute I think there is another country doing the same thing right now...

Re:About time.

[Sethus]

*coughcoughPatriotActcough* I'm glad our country doesn't have the authority to do such a horrible thing!

Re:It's called compare and contrast (ie, not OT)

[GMontag]

The Guantanamo prisoners are mistreated,

How are they mistreated? Have any proof of this?

No eye witness has made a single complaint. Some eighty-eight have been released already but not a single bad word from any of them can be found when this accusation is tossed about.

BTW, hooding prisoners is NOT torture and neither is shackeling for transport, both accusations tossed about by the hysterical Left.

Re:It's called compare and contrast (ie, not OT)

[GMontag]

Such detachment from reality is not unexpected, but still disturbing.

But it is a fact that prisoners on guantanamo bay are held illegally (according to the geneva convention they should be pow's, but the US claims they aren't)

Let's see a refrence to this. Sorry, I can not provide one at this time because illegal combatants are people not defined and not protected by ANY Geneva convention. What uniform or mark were they wearing? Who was directly responsible for these people, you know, a Chain-of-Command as defined in the protocols?

Please, stop your lies.

Asking people questions and feeding them in a camp is NOT torture by any stretch of the imagination.

Now, where are you pulling this crap from?
(despite that the war in afghanistan is over, pow's haven't been returned or formally accused of a crime)

The wasr is NOT over there and they need not be accused of any crime! Show us a quote where illegal combatants have to be accused of a crime to be detained until the end of hostilities.

Yes, more detachment from reality.

Re:It's called compare and contrast (ie, not OT)

[GMontag]

Humm, well, even as clueless nonsense like yours deserves as much a response as "how do you know the sky is blue, prove it to me", I will anyway.

warriors, combatants, fighters. Please tell me the difference between these. What makes a fighter illegal? If we call warriors, fighters does that change the way we should treat them. You my friend are looking at a very big grey hole created by the current administration.

The answer is in the Geneva Conventions, one important bit was already posted in this discussion by me. Consult my journal for a link to the post too. Now, run along and read them so you may return to ask something intelligent.

Is there a war in afghanistan?

Why Yes there is! "Discovering" this well known fact is much easier than "discovering" that the text of the Geneva Conventions are available online too, so I have no faith that you will find any information on this either.