China Releases Cyber Dissident

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 30, 2003 @07:16PM from the no-hard-feelings-eh dept.

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."

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Re:Outrageous! by sql*kitten · 2003-12-01 01:46 · Score: 1, Troll

Adding to this, unfortunatly, we have been pushed down onto the list of violators of human rights by the UN.

Ummm, yes, by a human rights commission that includes such notable supporters of human rights such as Libya and Syria?

You can ignore anything the UN says on human rights, given that it has appointed these countries to monitor others.