BEIJING: A Chinese court has sentenced to five years in prison a Taiwanese activist who conducted online lectures on Taiwan’s democratization and managed a fund for families of political prisoners in China.
The Yueyang City Intermediate People’s Court in central China handed down the sentence against Lee Ming-che Tuesday after finding him guilty of subversion of state power.
Lee was detained in southern China on March 19 and was tried in September. Lee confessed to the charge during his trial, which his wife dismissed as “a political show.”
Subversion of state power is a vaguely defined charge often used by authorities to muzzle dissent and imprison critics.
Lee Ming-che’s trial marked China’s first criminal prosecution of a nonprofit worker since Beijing passed a law tightening controls over foreign non-governmental organizations.
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China sentences Taiwan activist to 5 years for subversion
China sentences Taiwan activist to 5 years for subversion
UK, French, German leaders call Russia’s use of Oreshnik missile ‘unacceptable’
- “It was clear Russia was using fabricated allegations to justify the attack,” Starmer said
LONDON: Russia’s use of an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in western Ukraine was “escalatory and unacceptable,” the leaders of Britain, France and Germany agreed in a call on Friday, a UK government spokeswoman said.
“It was clear Russia was using fabricated allegations to justify the attack,” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told the French and German leaders in the call, according to the spokeswoman.
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