Outrage over travesty of justice for journalist Shi Tao
(Mar. 17, 2005)Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage today at the travesty of justice in which dissident journalist Shi Tao appeared before the state prosecutor in the southern city of Changsha in a secret, two-hour hearing on 11 March and was found guilty of " illegally divulging state secrets abroad."
Sentencing is due on 25 March at the latest. He reportedly faces the possibility of being sentenced to between 10 years and life imprisonment.
Shi was able to see his mother and brother for 10 minutes after the hearing. Seeing that he was suffering from flu, they wanted to provide him with medicine but the authorities refused. (boxun.com)
Shi' s lawyer, Guo Guoting, was banned from practising for a year on 4 March by the justice department in the eastern city of Shanghai, so Shi was represented at the hearing by one of Guo Guoting’s colleagues.
(boxun.com)
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