記者無國界譴責中共當局判處李元龍兩年徒刑
【大紀元7月14日訊】RSF：記者李元龍因在互聯網上發表「顛覆性」文章被判刑兩年
記者無國界對於中國西南部貴州省畢節市法院判處《畢節日報》記者李元龍兩年徒刑並剝奪政治權力兩年的判決表示憤慨。
該組織還譴責當地官方將其家庭作為人質，逼迫李在五月的一個庭審中向法庭書寫「認罪書」的行為，該判決直到今天才宣佈。
記者無國界說：「李不過是儘自己的記者職責，報導了中國農村最貧困的這個地區人們的經歷的生活艱辛。他自己還發起基金幫助失學兒童返回學校。將這種有勇氣和正直的人投入監獄令人憤慨。」
李元龍的律師李建強今天在六四天網網站上說，「該判決從法理上是完全不能接受的。畢節法院受到上級的指令，這是為甚麼他們延遲這麼久才判決的原因。」他同時指出,不管怎樣，「這一判決相對其他類似案件來說是比較輕的」他會同其家人討論是否上訴的問題。
在李於2005年9月29日被逮捕後，有數月時間李的家人都沒有他的任何消息。直到今年二月九日他才正式被起訴，可是其庭審卻三次被延期。按照博訊網站一名記者的說法，貴州公安局需要這些時間準備起訴他的證據。
最後，據報導這個公安局為了逼迫李寫「認罪書」綁架了他的妻子，在一個酒店房間裡面關押了她10天，並且將其16歲的兒子關押了7天。在這個20，000字的認罪書中，他承認「誣蔑社會主義制度」。該份文件在庭審中被檢方引用。
李在互聯網上發佈多篇文章批評當前中國社會的缺點，並且要求更多的自由民主。他的兩篇文章，《在思想上加入美國國籍》、《生的平凡死的可悲》被中國共產黨認為是特別「惡劣的」。
該黨還批判李元龍的報導。他的夫人去年一月說「李元龍採訪了許多沒有入學的兒童，他的採訪報導引起了社會的巨大反響，並且為失學兒童返回學校學習湊集到了資金……然而，當地黨組織無理禁止發表他進行的訪問，指責他的報導給這個社會抹黑」
——轉自六四天網
註：記者無國界授權六四天網翻譯，請以英文文本為準。
China 13 July 2006 RSF
Journalist Li Yuanlong gets two years in prison for 「subversive」 Internet articles
Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay at the sentence of two years in prison and two years loss of civil rights handed down today by a court in Bijie in the southwestern province of Guizhou on journalist Li Yuanlong of the Bijie Ribao daily newspaper for 「inciting subversion of the state」 in articles he posted on the Internet.
The organisation also condemned the way the authorities took Li』s family hostage to make him write a 「confession」 for the trial, which was held in May although the verdict was not issued until today.
「Li just did his job as a journalist by reporting on the hardships experienced by the poorest sectors of the population in the Chinese countryside,」 Reporters Without Borders said. 「He even raised funds to enable children to go back to school. It is an outrage that a person of such courage and integrity is being sent to prison.」
Li』s lawyer, Li Jianqiang, said today on 64Tianwang : 「The verdict and the entire judicial procedure are completely senseless. The Bijie court was accountable to higher authorities, which is the reason they took so long to issue a verdict.」 He added that, despite everything, 「this sentence is relatively light compared with other similar cases」 and that he would discuss the possibility of an appeal with the family.
Li』s family spent several months without any news of him following his arrest on 29 September 2005. He was finally formally charged on 9 February, but then his trial was postponed three times. According to a journalist writing for Boxun, the Guizhou Public Security Bureau needed all this time to prepare a case against him.
In the end, the bureau reportedly kidnapped his wife and held her in a hotel room for 10 days and detained his 16-year-old son for a week in order to force him to write his 「confession,」 a 20,000-word document in which he admitted to 「defaming the socialist system.」 It was cited by the prosecution during the trial.
Li posted many essays on the Internet in which he criticised the shortcomings of contemporary Chinese society and called for more freedom and democracy. Two of his essays, entitled 「Becoming American in Spirit」 and 「The Banal Nature of Life and the Lamentable Nature of Death,」 were considered particularly 「serious」 by the Communist Party of China.
The party also criticised his reporting. 「Li Yuanlong interviewed many poor children who were not getting any schooling,」 his wife said last January. 「The publication of his reports had a big impact and helped collect fund to pay for them to go back to school (…) The local party nonetheless banned him from publishing his interviews, accusing him of showing society in a negative light.」
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