Dioneae muscipula wrote:
> On August 31, 2005, Jim Yardley contributed the story for New York
> Times on its former employee, Zhao Yan, who was held for more than 11
> months by China. Read the article in
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/international/asia/31secret.html
Is this just typical of the nature of these national security charges?
Just look at, as comparison, Wen Ho Lee and James Yee.
Ordinary security charges, right?
>
> An outline of the article:
> * Zhao Yan was charged that he leaked state secrets to
> his employer, The New York Times.
> * The accusation deprives a defendant in China of almost
> all rights. Mr. Zhao still has not had a court hearing.
> No public explanation has been given for his arrest.
> He is forbidden to see his family. His lawyer's
> efforts to post bail were denied by the Ministry of
> State Security, the agency that arrested him.
> * A confidential State Security re****t and interviews
> confirm that Mr. Zhao was the focus of a high-level
> investigation begun in response to an article in The
> Times on Sept. 7. The article, citing two anonymous
> sources, stated that Jiang Zemin, the former president
> and Communist Party chief, had unexpectedly offered to
> resign his last leader****p position.
> * The key evidence cited is a photocopy of a note Mr.
> Zhao wrote. The original note remains in the Beijing
> office of The Times, raising questions about whether
> state security agents induced a Chinese employee of
> the office to provide a copy without authorization or
> conducted a search without permission. In either
> case, under Chinese law, the photocopy would be
> inadmissible as evidence.
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