{"id":11476,"date":"2007-03-02T22:36:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T05:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/03\/02\/court-accuses-journalists-of-libel-urges-them-to-turn-themselves-in-yulun-jiandu\/"},"modified":"2007-03-02T22:36:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T05:36:56","slug":"court-accuses-journalists-of-libel-urges-them-to-turn-themselves-in-yulun-jiandu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/03\/court-accuses-journalists-of-libel-urges-them-to-turn-themselves-in-yulun-jiandu\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Accuses Journalists of Libel, Urges Them to Turn Themselves In &#8211; Yulun Jiandu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_article_UploadPic_2007-3_20073272016976.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/_article_UploadPic_2007-3_20073272016976.jpg','popup','width=450,height=619,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_article_UploadPic_2007-3_20073272016976-tm.jpg\" height=\"167\" width=\"120\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" Article Uploadpic 2007-3 20073272016976\" \/><\/a>A case study of China&#8217;s rule of law, or lack thereof. From Yulun Jiandu and other sources, compiled and translated by CDT:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jiangxi\">Jiangxi<\/a> Provincial High Court a couple of days ago handed out an official letter to journalists Xu Xiang (<span style=\"font-family:STHeiti;\">\u00c2\u00e6\u00ea\u00c1\u2022\u2022<\/span>) and Li Xinde to accuse them of libel in a recent expose story and asked them to turn themselves in, or cooperate with, an investigation at the court by March 9.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The article &#8216;Jiangxi High Court Vice President Illegally Handles Case and Ruins Multimillionaire,&#8217; which was written by you and publicized on the web, seriously distorted facts and willfully libelled court officials, gravely disrupting work at the court,&#8221; the red-stamp document says. &#8220;Now [we order] you immediately eliminate the consequences and come to the High Court to receive investigation by March 9.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLi Xinde challenges the court&#8217;s letter and charges of libel and, in a letter on his web site, published two screenshots of the Jiangxi court&#8217;s web site, on two days, one showing the digital version of the official letter and the other displaying a blank page, where the letter was taken off the site.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\nLi criticizes the court&#8217;s willful abuse of power that &#8220;it served both as an athlete and a referee in the same game.&#8221; The libel charge was not filed by the vice president, who was accused by journalists of corruption, neither was the case handled by the police, Li notes. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuluncn.com\/html\/redian\/2007-3\/2\/08_31_08_626.html\">Full Text in Chinese<\/a>]\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yuluncn.com\/html\/redian\/2007-2\/25\/00_33_59_751.html\">corruption expose<\/a> (Chinese), authored by Xu, Jiangxi High Court vice president Guo Bing (<span style=\"font-family:STHeiti;\">\u00c8\u00c9\u2260\u00c2\u00d6\u00b5<\/span>) was alleged to be a mastermind behind the handling of a case involving a web of real estate development deals and enriching himself by arranging transactions even though the transactions meant loss of state assets. And one of a local multimillionaires, who ran a hotel business, found his properties confisticated and his business disrupted by power outages for &#8220;failing to pay power bills.&#8221; All of these problems, according to the expose, were a result of &#8220;offending a big shot,&#8221; that being the court vice president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case study of China&#8217;s rule of law, or lack thereof. 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