The journalist Huang Xueqinwho gave a voice to women victims of sexual harassment in China, was sentenced this Friday by the Intermediate Court of Canton to five years in prison for the crime of “inciting the subversion of state power.”
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Meanwhile, activist Wang Jianbing was sentenced to three years and six months for the same charge, usually used against Chinese human rights activists, his supporters announced on the social network X.
Last year, several NGOs reported that both had been “courts without guarantees” and asked the Chinese Government to release them “immediately.”
The informant, who has been detained for 999 days, was also deprived of her political rights for four years, with which she would be released from prison. in September 2026.
Huang, born in 1988, was instrumental in launching #MeToo in China in January 2018, collecting testimony from victims of sexual assault.
The independent reporter also covered issues related to corruption and industrial pollution. In 2019, Huang posted online about her experience during the anti-government protests that hit Hong Kong in 2020, after which Guangzhou authorities detained her for at least three months, according to the NGO.
The human rights NGO CHRD (Chinese Human Rights Defenders) denounced last year that the treatment of Huang and Wang at the hands of the police was “riddled with violations of Chinese law and procedural justice.” .
“It is the Chinese government that should be judged for illegally locking up its own citizens simply for the exercise peaceful of their human rights“said Renee Xia, director of the CHRD.
According to this entity, Wang Jianbing, born in 1980, was held incommunicado during the first months of his detention, and the authorities refused to reveal any information to his family.about his whereabouts or his arrest.
Meanwhile, Huang was not allowed to see a lawyer of her choice and was subjected to prolonged and repeated interrogations, the same source reports.
The NGO claims that Huang was prosecuted for her work as an independent journalist and for uncovering human rights abuses in China.
It also points out that Wang – an activist known for his support of people with disabilities and workers who developed illnesses due to poor working conditions – frequently participated in informal meetings with friends, in which Huang would also have participated, but that these had no meaning. explicit structure or political intention.
EFE
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