[107709] in Cypherpunks
"Relatively Light" Sentence? (was Re: Edupage, 21 January 1999)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu Jan 21 17:04:04 1999
In-Reply-To:
<LYR38310-9878-1999.01.21-14.36.15--rah#shipwright.com@franklin.oit.unc.ed
u>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:31:42 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 2:36 PM -0500 on 1/21/99, Edupage Editors wrote:
> SHANGHAI MAN GETS RELATIVELY LIGHT SENTENCE IN INTERNET CASE
> A Chinese court has given a two-year jail sentence to Lin Hai, the
> 30-year-old owner of a computer software company in Shanghai, for selling
> 30,000 e-mail addresses to the Washington, D.C.-based electronic publication
> VIP Reference, which is critical of the Chinese government. Although the
> charge on which Lin Hai was judged guilty was "inciting the subversion of
> state sovereignty," his wife insisted that he had sold the addresses without
> knowing that they were being used for anti-government purposes. The
> sentence is part of a renewed government crackdown against dissidents, but
> it is significantly lighter that other recent sentences for similar
> offenses. (Washington Post 20 Jan 99)
-----------------
Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
