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Inside China Today – Tuesday 8th December

Appellant arrested for exposing false claim by China's CCTV.

Communist regime launches attack against SOH

SOH provides news, commentary, entertainment and cultural programming through the web, AM/FM in different cities, and shortwave to mainland China. SOH originated in Mandarin Chinese, and currently also offers programs in Cantonese Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Vietnamese and Korean.

Well our network continues to expand, sharing with more of the world, the true situation of life in 21^st century Communist China. As part of our expansion, in 2005, an agreement was made between SOH in New York and a local station in Batam Indonesia to broadcast SOH’s Chinese programs. The station is called Radio Erabura. It broadcasts on 106.5 FM. It covers Batam Island, southern Malaysia and almost the entirety of Singapore. It also reaches ships that travel through the Singapore Strait.

However in 2007, the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia wrote letters to Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Intelligence, the National Broadcasting Committee and the Department of Communication and Information, demanding the Indonesian government close down the broadcasts. As a result the related agencies have not issued a license to Radio Erabura FM. Previously a license had been obtained through the provincial government. At the time of consideration, Radio Erabura was joined by five other stations who applied at the same time. Licenses were granted to all of them, while Radio Erabura’s was denied. To this day, they have given no clear reason why. Facing closure, Radio Erabura FM sued the agency but lost. They have now appealed to the Supreme Court. If Radio Erabura lose again, it will be a substantial loss for freedom of press. Radio Erabura reached up to 2.7 million Chinese speakers who only previously received the propaganda of the Communist regime.

Now over to Taiwan. Since 2004, SOH has been leasing air time on a government funded radio station to broadcast shortwave into the heart of China. With this we have been able to bring the truth to almost every part of China save the far west. Well, the Communist regime, ever afraid of criticism and exposure of its crimes, has launched an attack against SOH. Using illegal means to pressure the Taiwanese government, they have influenced Radio International Taiwan’s CEO to reduce our broadcasting hours.

On a daily basis SOH uncovers atrocities committed by the CCP against the Chinese people and broadcasts it for all to hear. The CCP is petrified of what will happen when the world knows about what it does to people in China who practice Falun Gong.

A recent report by SOH shows that our signal is audible 50%-80% of the time in the heart of China. This was even so during this years National Day on October 1^st, when the Communist regime tried to seal off all free flow of information to China.

However, following a change of government in Taiwan, the CCP began to entice the government to cancel SOH’s China broadcasting. In November of this year, SOH learned that RTI planned to discontinue their contract with SOH in this coming January. SOH contacted government officials and managed to prevent RTI from completely canceling the contract.

The reduction of hours not only impacts on the window of opportunity Chinese nationals have in learning China’s true situation through our broadcasts, but it means the CCP has a foot in the hypothetical door to Taiwan. Paving the way for further interference.

SOH hopes our listeners will pay attention to this situation. We will bring you updates on the situation as events unfold in the coming weeks and months.

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Appellants outraged over false claims of peace

China’s CCTV announced there were zero petitions as of December 2nd in Tianjin. This has outraged appellants who say the announcement is just a ploy to prop up the Communist Party’s theme of harmony. Appellants are asking when or where in China are there no petitions? The announcement came on the day before China’s Law Popularisation Day.

Tianjin appellant, Ning Jinxia, told SOH the announcement is a setup, , “As early as the 16th of September, Tianjin Municipal Politics and Law Committee notified appellants that anyone registering a complaint that day would be guaranteed an answer within two months. There was no need to re-visit within the two months. Word got around and there were about 300 appellants that registered. With this ploy no petitioners would appear on camera.”

According to Ning it was all lip service since no one who registered on the 16th of September got an answer, “When appellants met at the Complaints Bureau, they asked one another whose issue had been resolved. It had been almost three months without an answer. How could they talk about zero petitions? It was obvious deception. For example, the child of Zhao Huimin from Hongtiaozi died of a medical accident. The body is still frozen at the morgue, has the ten-year-old case been resolved? Zhang Guilan from Hong Tiaozi has been appealing for her brother’s muders for twenty years. Wu Jinlong, Jiang Yun and others from Hebei District have been going through the legal processes for six or seven years after their houses were forcibly demolished by the [Communist Party]. It has been ten years since the enterprise of Taiwanese Huang Qingen was illegally auctioned by the court. Have the fifty-odd additional cases that the Central Politics and Law Committee taken on in 2007, been dealt with? Nothing has been resolved.”

The announcement by China’s CCTV has presented what many call a false picture of peace. They appellants say it will not work. “We will persist in upholding our legal rights. CCTV advertised zero petitions in Tianjin, we will go to Beijing, to the Supreme Court.”

Craig Richter, Fu Ming and Yi Fan for SOH Radio Network.

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REJECTED: Appellants gather to sue Shanghai government

Several hundred petitioners from Shanghai gathered in Beijing to sue the Shanghai government. Petitioners complaining of the Shanghai government’s corruption were refused a meeting and some were even openly kidnapped and escorted back to Shanghai.

Shanghai petitioner, Shen Peilan had this to say, “We went to the National Complaint and Letters Bureau this morning, there were several hundred people at the Bureau’s gate, they did not come out to meet us. We sang the International song together, and also sang that the Communist party is good, the Communist party is people’s good leader, wholeheartedly grabbing the money for themselves” … Everyone just sang like that.”

Shanghai petitioner, Tong Guojing added. “Ordinary people are really without choice. Under this tyrannical system, ordinary people have nowhere to complain about injustice, there’s nowhere for them to complain. This society has come to this, we have all entered a hopeless situation. Yesterday was Yang Jia’s 1st anniversary, which is why many petitioners planned to go there yesterday. However, they guessed that they will set up an ambush so they then went to the National Bureau. In the end, the incident occurred at the national Bureau. Now we tussle back and forth, it is not clear when the ordinary people will see the end.”

Shanghai petitioner, Qiu Meili said that although authorities have forced them to a dead end, they will persist.

“Now they have forced us to a dead end. Last time we wanted to come too. It is reasonable and fair that we petition the National Bureau, but they stop us from petitioning. They arrest us and detain us. We cannot do anything about it. In any event, we will continue to fight. There are many refugees escaping outside, and they will continue to fight. Whatever happens, we will fight to the end. We won’t stop fighting just like this if the suppression does not stop.”

Shanghai petitioners have designated the last week of the month as their Petitioning Activity day.

Keith Ware; Wen Fang and Wang Zhen for SOH Radio Network.

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