Li Jingyu urges Taiwan to fight for the rights of political prisoners

After Li Mingzhe, a former member of the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party, was sentenced on the mainland,Li Jingyu, the woman who went to hear the verdict, returned to Taiwan on Wednesday.She called on the Taiwanese authorities to seek Li Mingzhe's rights and interests for political prisoners.Taiwan's business office on the mainland believes thatThe evidence of Li Mingzhe's case should be judged by the mainland court.Li Jingyu refuted her husband as a prisoner of conscience.Never think that there is a court. (Report by Yan Guangzheng Taipei)

Li Mingzhe's wife, Li Jingyu, held a press conference at the airport and said that Li Mingzhe had started his career as a criminal human rights defender, calling the world to continue to pay attention to him. She also thanked the United Nations and various civil society organizations in Taiwan for their care and badistance during this period.

Li Jingyu said: I hope that the MAC and the SEF will be able to help the basic communication of political prisoners and the fundamental rights of family members to visit.

Ma Xiaoguang, spokeswoman for Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Office, said in the morning that the Chinese mainland's business processing bureau had handled the case and rendered a judgment in accordance with the ruling. law.

Ma Xiaoguang said: Li Mingzhe is guilty of subverting the power of the state. The facts of the crime are clear, the evidence is sufficient, organized, planned and exploitable. Some people in Taiwan are unaware of the facts and are attacking the continent. If Li Mingzhe's actions endanger the security and stability of the continent, it should be judged by the continental courts, not by the subjective prejudice of the Taiwan authorities and some political organizations.

Ma Xiaoguang said that respecting the development path and institutional choices of each is the minimum end result for the development of relations between the two parties. The continent respects the existing social system in Taiwan, but that does not mean that the Taiwanese side can impose its own political ideas on the continent and even violate the laws of the continent.

Regarding the speech of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Affairs Council, Li Jingyu believes that there has never been any recognition of the existence of a court.

Li Jingyu said the following: Since the beginning of Li Mingzhe's incident, when media friends asked me about the sentence handed down yesterday, I only have one sentence . I repeat that for a political conscience, there is no court, we defend Value, what we say is based on our conscience, a universal value. It is a value of human rights that can be understood and understood by the world.

Li Mingzhe has been accused of subversion of state power by the mainland.WeekSecondly, he was sentenced to five years in prison by the Intermediate People's Court of Yueyang City, Hunan Province, causing concern for international public opinion. Cui Ge Ruisi, spokesman for the US Department of East Asia and the Pacific, replied that the United States was "disappointed" that Li Mingzhe was sentenced to five years in prison for " fuzzy accusations "and urged the mainland authorities to release Li Mingzhe," letting him let him find his family ". "."

In addition, the spokesman of the American Taiwan Association (AIT), Yu ShiyaWeekThe third (29th) repeated that the US side was disappointed with the judgment and urged Lu to release Li Mingzhe.

Li Mingzhe was reported missing after entering the mainland on March 19, 2002. After 10 days, the Taiwan Affairs Bureau confirmed that he had been arrested for investigation. The case was heard on September 11, 2003. On Tuesday, Li Mingzhe was sentenced to five years in prison and Peng Yuhua to seven years, and both declared in court that they would not appeal .