Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong had called for greater scrutiny of the wealth of China’s leaders and urged political reform
The UN human rights chief, Volker Turk, has said he is “very concerned” afterXu Zhiyong and fellow campaigner Ding Jiaxi were convicted of “subversion of state power” after closed-door trials andBoth were leading figures in the New Citizens’ Movement, a civil rights group that called for constitutional reform and criticised government corruption. The lengthy sentences have shocked supporters and observers.
Observers have regularly raised concerns about due process in China, where the courts have a conviction rate of more than 99%. She would keep pressing for information, she added. “I will not let them put Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong in jail so easily.” “It is a democratic China that belongs to everyone on this land, not to any one ethnicity or political party. It is truly a country of the people, its government chosen by ballots, not violence,” he said, according to a translation by China Change.
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