Inside China Today

Inside China Today – Tuesday 27th October

Freegate software continues improving to counter CCP efforts at censoring it.

- Shanghai family torn apart by eviction;

- New release of Free Gate allows unimpeded Internet access;

- Condemned for 10 years for their innocent belief.

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Shanghai family torn apart by eviction

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In the Nanhui District, Shanghai government officials demolished Cao Xinren’s house and confiscated 180 square meters of land which was handed down from his ancestors. The officials further extorted thousands of Yuan and forced Cao and his family to live in government subsidized housing.

The demolition of Cao’s home was the catalyst for further hardships. Cao’s wife (a hospitality hostess) subsequently suffered a nervous breakdown and due to the financial difficulties their only son was forced to quit school at Tongji University.

Allegedly due to the nervous breakdown, Cao wife disappeared shortly thereafter. Cao states:
[Recording]“Now my son is looking for my wife together with me. There is no way to do any job. I’m having an extremely hard time right now. When he quit school, my son told them that my house was torn down, there is no place to live, I can’t find my mother, we have no money at all, and we can’t afford the tuition any more. My son was devastated.”

Cao tried to solve the problem through legal means. He has written more than 10 letters to the Shanghai government, but nobody paid any attention. Lawyers told Cao frankly that, the government and the courts collude with each other. There is no way to win the suit. Cao goes on to say:

[Recording]“I found a lawyer. He said you can not win in the lower court and intermediate court. The ‘Property Law’ doesn’t work. The court doesn’t accept cases about forced house demolition. They told me that this forced house demolition issue was colluded with government. You have no way to win the suit. You can only appeal to the government. If government wants to give you an answer, they will give one. If they don’t, you can wait till death. No solutions. The lawyers said my case was extremely legitimate, but there is no way to win the suit. Don’t waste your money. There are no words for such corruption.”

Cao stated angrily, that he has a government that doesn’t care about their people’s survival at all. Cao states:
[Recording]“Now what we can do? We have no solutions, no one to appeal to, and no one to help. Now what kind of government is that? I wrote more than ten letters to the mayor. They don’t pay attention at all. They have colluded with each other. The higher authorities transferred the responsibility to lower authorities. And the lower authorities transferred the responsibility to higher authorities. They won’t give me a reply. Who can uproot common people with total indifference like this?”

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New release of Free Gate allows unimpeded Internet access

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Recently Wujie and Dynamic Internet Technology Inc. published their latest software, with enhanced anti-censorship functionality. Feedback from mainland Chinese Internet users indicates the software updates now allow unimpeded access to overseas websites.

SOH interviewed a number of mainland Chinese Internet user who have adopted the technology.

According to Mr Huang from Guizhou Province, the new Free Gate software allows reliable and fast Internet access. He said, “I have use the latest version 6.89 for three days, there is no hindrance, I feel it is very easy to use, particularly easy to use. I found this newest release from the 15th [of October], in Guiyang. I found it to be very good, and there’s no blockage. It opens instantly with nice speed. It feels like we have recovered the way we used to have Free Gate in the past. I feel it is very good to use.”

Mr Wong from Hebei said the new Free Gate software is very easy to use. He has found that it enables him to surf the Internet freely in Shijiazhuang as well as Beijing; at Internet cafes as well as his home. He said, “I have used just one, that new 89 version. It’s quite good to use, I have tried in Shijiazhuang, as well as Beijing city. Also at Internet cafes, and on personal computers. From what we see now, we feel the speed is quite good, quite fast.”

In an interview with SOH, a spokeperson of the Dynamic Internet Technology Inc, said that the company would continue to research and develop new technology. He said the company will continue to break through the Internet censorship under the Chinese Communist regime, and provide a free, reliable and safe channel of Internet access for the great Internet population in mainland China.

He said, “What we do is to try our best to integrate the various high end technologies we have, into this software, let everybody use it, and make its impact. For a period of time the censorship became more severe, so we quickly released some of the technology which we have continued to work on in the past, and various beta versions to collect feedback from our users. This also helped us to complete some of the technological development, and we were able to publish a more stable program. We are still continuing to work on this. The Chinese Communist regime has not let loose, it is continuing its censorship endeavors. While continuing to improve on our current technologies, will also continue to develop and provide new technology.”

Caden Pearson, Bo Ming, and Yu Yin of the SOH Radio Network.

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Condemned for 10 years for their innocent belief

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In Weifang City, 100 Falun Gong practitioners were abducted in one day. Cao Junfeng was among them. She was illegally abducted from her home one week before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held the Olympic Games.

Due to lack of any evidence, the Procuratorate returned the case files twice to the public security office. On July 31, 2009, the court of Kuiwen district commenced proceedings. The defence attorney was not allowed to cross-examine the 45 copies of so-called evidence that was used to sue. He was also not allowed to finish statements made in her defense. The lawyer, Wen Haibo, said, the concerned party didn’t break any laws, but that the sentence applied wrong laws.

Wen Haibo [Recording]:”From the perspective of law, we think doing these things don’t go against the current Chinese laws or other related regulations. So we prepared a defence of innocence for the court. Viewing the result of this sentence, the attorney’s defence was not adopted by the court. Actually it is a wrong conclusion based on a wrong premise.”

On October 18, Cao Junping was illegally sentenced to 10 years in prison by Kuiwen district in the city of Weifang. Her defense attorney has appealed to a higher court. Cao Junping’s daughter, Pang Jin, who lives in America, is calling for international organizations to pay attention to the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

Pang Jin told a SOH reporter that, at the beginning of October, the court told her relatives that the evidence is inadequate and that there is no way to pronounce a sentence. However, after several days, they handed down a serious sentence without regard for what they told her family. On the same day, Cao Junping’s sister Cao Junfeng was also sentenced to 9 years by Hanting district court.

Daughter Pang Jin [Recording]:”My elderly grandparents have not heard this news. Family members dare not tell them. We don’t know what their response will be if they hear that their two daughters were sentenced to 9 and 10 years respectively on the same day. It’s so cruel and bloody. I don’t know if such old people can bear this huge blow or not.”

According to Pang Jin, another Falun Gong practitioner who appeared in the same court as her aunt was sentenced for 4 years. Ms. Pang will call on American President Obama who is going to visit China, to urge CCP authorities to return Falun Gong practitioners’ freedom.

Pang Jin [Recording]:”When Obama visits China, I hope he can help to have my innocent mother and aunt released. For the past year, my heart is struggling in pain every day. Nobody should be persecuted due to their beliefs. The foundation of America… to establish this state… is the freedom of belief and human rights. Obama should convey this message to China.”

Keith Ware; Li Yifei; and Si Ming of the SOH Radio Network

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