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Internet: China Detains Another Cyber Activist - HK Group |
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Sat December 20, 2003 12:39 PM ET
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China has detained a cyber activist for posting pro-democracy essays and poems on foreign Web sites, the latest in a string of detentions or convictions of Internet dissidents, a human rights group said on Saturday.
Separately, China has also rejected an application of another cyber activist to appeal against his eight-year jail sentence, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights & Democracy said in a statement.
Kong Youping, a 48-year-old factory worker in Anshan city in northeastern Liaoning province, was taken away on December 13, the group said.
Beijing's high court had also declined to allow dissident He Depu to lodge an appeal against a November 6 ruling, which sentenced him to eight years in jail for releasing four essays on the Internet, it said.
Beijing officials were not immediately available to comment.
China has been cracking down on Internet content -- from politics to pornography -- but has struggled to gain control over the new and popular medium.
It has created a special Internet police force, blocked some foreign news sites and shut down domestic sites posting politically incorrect literature.
Earlier this month, China sentenced another cyber dissident in the western city of Xi'an to two years in prison on charges of inciting subversion, just hours after Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in the United States for a visit.
© Reuters 2003. All Rights Reserved.
Source: Reuters
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