Chinese dissident arrested
p2pnet.net News:- After being in custody for nearly four months, a "high-profile" Chinese Internet dissident has been formally arrested on charges of subversion, China’s state press reports.
"Du Daobin, 39, was charged by the Hubei provincial public security bureau for "inciting subversion of China’s state power and the overthrow of China’s socialist system," Agence France-Presse quotes the Xinhua news agency as saying here, going on that Du, a former finance official and a prolific online writer on Chinese political and social issues, was detained in Hubei in October.
According to a police spokesman, his "crime stemmed to 28 articles that he had written and posted on the Internet since 2001," the report says. Du had, "overstepped his legal rights of criticizing government work and government functionaries with good intentions and viciously incited subversion of state power through fabrications,’ a Chinese official is quoted as saying, adding that Du had ‘confessed to the major facts of his crime’."
AFP says Du had written three articles on a controversial piece of Hong Kong security legislation seen by many as "an attempt to curb freedoms" and which was postponed, "following huge street protests in Hong Kong last year".
