likely to take place after the Lunar New Year holiday, which begins this weekend."This case is related to the jasmine revolutions in the Middle East, because he wrote that poem under those particular circumstances," Li said. "If he had [written it] in ordinary times, then it wouldn't have mattered; it was a problem because he published it at that time."
However, he said Zhu remained defiant. "He's a tough old stick now, and he doesn't care," Li said. "He says it's not too bad inside; the detention center gave him a new overcoat because the weather has been cold lately."
from Luisetta Mudie: Radio Free Asia: Dissident Charged Over 'Subversive' Poem
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Chinese authorities want netizens to register their real names before blogging, lest they post sensitive information.
China has announced it will expand controls on 330 million users of the country's hugely popular Twitter-like services, in a move critics say will curb microblogs as a vital source of news and unofficial opinion.
Real-name registration is necessary to ensure the "rapid and healthy growth of the Internet," Wang Chen, head of China's cabinet-level Internet management office, told reporters.
from Luisetta Mudie: Radio Free Asia: Further Controls on Microblogs
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Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan have handed a 10-year jail term to Maoist writer Li Tie for subversion, after he wrote articles online calling for political reform and for the human dignity of ordinary people to be respected.
Li was sentenced by the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court, which found him guilty of "incitement to subvert state power" this week, his lawyer and family said.
The sentence, of 10 years' imprisonment and three years' deprivation of political rights, follows hard on the heels of similar jail terms handed down to Sichuan-based activist Chen Wei and Guizhou-based dissident Chen Xi.
from Luisetta Mudie: Radio Free Asia: Maoist Writer Jailed for Subversion
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