{"id":31550,"date":"2009-01-21T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=31550"},"modified":"2009-01-21T12:01:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T19:01:37","slug":"suit-latest-pro-democracy-move-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/01\/suit-latest-pro-democracy-move-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Suit Latest Pro-democracy Move in China (+Bloggers Reactions)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/world\/20090121TDY07308.htm\">From yomiuri.com.jp:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the past few months, China has seen a rise in dissenting voices protesting against one-party rule and calls for democratic reform and the boycotting of the state TV broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>The latest dissident to pick a fight with the government is a Beijing company executive who began proceedings Monday to file a lawsuit against an Internet provider that blocked access to his blog.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Zhaojun (\u6c6a\u5146\u94a7), 60, a former standing committee member of the Anhui Province People&#8217;s Political and Consultative Conference, posted on his blog an essay calling for political reform.<\/p>\n<p>Wang instigated proceedings on the ground that, by blocking access to the blog, the provider violated the Chinese Constitution, which states that citizens &#8220;enjoy freedom of speech.&#8221; Wang is demanding that the provider unblock access to the Web site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many Chinese bloggers are publicly supporting Wang&#8217;s action in their blog writings, like <a href=\"http:\/\/chinagfw.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/blog-post_9403.html\">this one<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My capacity is limited at this moment. I can only pay my respect to this old man, and say one sentence: &#8216;Mr. Wang, we support you!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u5728\u6211\u81ea\u5df1\u6ca1\u6709\u5176\u4ed6\u80fd\u529b\u7684\u65f6\u5019\uff0c\u6211\u53ea\u80fd\u5bf9\u4e00\u4e2a\u8001\u4eba\uff0c\u8868\u8fbe\u6211\u7531\u8877\u7684\u656c\u610f\u3002\u5e76\u4e14\u8bf4\u4e00\u53e5\u8bdd\uff1a\u6c6a\u5148\u751f\uff0c\u6211\u4eec\u652f\u6301\u60a8\uff01&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chinese blog search engines have already <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.cn\/blogsearch?hl=zh-CN&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=\u6c6a\u5146\u94a7&#038;btnG=\u641c\u7d22\u535a\u5ba2&#038;lr=\">blocked Wang&#8217;s name as a search word<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From yomiuri.com.jp: Over the past few months, China has seen a rise in dissenting voices protesting against one-party rule and calls for democratic reform and the boycotting of the state TV broadcaster. 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