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March 4, 2021 - Epoch Times
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Social Media Celebrity Forced to Confess on TV | Epoch News | China Insider
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Chinese social media celebrity La Bi Xiaoqiu, small crayon ball, was formally arrested by the regime for defaming martyrs and forced to plead guilty on TV for questioning the number of deaths on the Chinese side in the Sino-Indian border conflict.
The charge just took effect on March 1st.
Legal experts believe that this is clearly an illegal act of political persecution and a political trial put on by the CCP. The Municipal Procuratorate of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, issued a notice on March 1 that it had formally approved the arrest of Labi Xiaoqiu,
On suspicion of infringing on the reputation and honour of heroes and martyrs under the amended criminal law and decided to open a public interest litigation case for investigation.
According to the CCP's criminal procedure law, which came into effect on March 1st, those found guilty of slandering martyrs could be jailed for up to three years.
Later that night, China Central Television, CCTV, broadcast a one-minute video of La Bi Xiuqiu's confession.
Wearing a mask and with a mosaic over his eyes, the man said in front of the camera that he had lost his conscience and felt remorse.
La Bi Xiaoqiu, whose real name is Zhou Ziming, was a reporter for the Economic Observer.
On February the 19th, the CCP announced that four soldiers were killed and a colonel seriously injured in the China-India border clash eight months ago.
which aroused many doubts among the people.
La Bi Xiaoqiu also posted speculation that more than four soldiers died.
His doubts angered the CCP. Police took him into custody on the 20th and shut down his Weibo account.
On February 25th, public security authorities asked prosecutors for permission to arrest him on suspicion of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
On March 1st, Nanjing prosecutors used the newly effective criminal law To convict the online celebrity guilty of his previous acts.
James Lay, Master of International Law at China University of Political Science and Law, said that if anyone is to be held criminally responsible, the provisions of this criminal law must already exist.
The CCP, using a law that went into effect on March 1st to criminalize La Bi Xiaoqiu, is illegal.
This move by Nanjing Procuratory is obviously a gross and abominable act of not observing the law.
It is obviously an atrocity to persecute Chinese citizens and conduct political trials.
U.S.-based China researcher Zhang Jian noted that the CCP is under the guise of the rule of law, but the law actually means nothing to them.
If Labi Xiaoqiu is guilty, some CCP leaders should also be put on trial.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the CCP's top leaders, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlei, repeatedly thanked the Japanese for invading China, according to the CCP's own publications.
For six times, at least, Mao thanked Japanese military and political figures who visited China.
He praised Japan's invasion of China and signed a joint statement with Japan to renounce war compensation.
Jiang Jian also questioned what crime Labi Xichao committed by simply not believing the number of Chinese deaths in the China-India conflict.
On the night of June 15, 2020, Chinese and Indian armies broke out the worst clash in 45 years along the border.
India immediately reported that at least 20 Indian troops were killed and 76 wounded, and held a state funeral for the dead soldiers.
The CCP, on the other hand, only recently announced the deaths of four soldiers.
Indian media said 43 CCP soldiers were killed or wounded.
Yao Chang, a former lieutenant colonel in the CCP's naval command, also told Sound of Hope that an investigation by the CCP's military had concluded 42 people had died.
The CCP's heroes, the People's Army, did not get normal burial and treatment.
When some of these opinion leaders and Internet celebrities put forward their views, its so-called legal sword was out to arrest these people, give them heavy sentences, and then humiliate them in a cultural revolution way of self-confession, forcing them to make such a self-confession on CCTV. Lei said, the confession on TV is extremely brutal, which has the same effect as shame parades before in the Cultural Revolution.
It uses such a way to humiliate a person in public to trample on the personality of the litigates.
So this confession must have torture, threats, and inducements behind the scenes, with a variety of methods to make this person to confess on TV. This is a violation of the United Nations Carter, a violation of the United Nations Human Rights Convention.
In a 2018 report, the human rights organization Safeguard Defenders revealed that the Chinese and Hong Kong media collaborated with the CCP to coerce detainees into making confessed films.
The organization called on governments around the world to pressure the CCP to stop abominable practices and to sanction media that cooperated with the communist regime.
In three days, the CCP detained at least six Chinese netizens for questioning the China-India conflict.
One of them, Wang Jingyu, a young man from Chongqing, was hunted online because he was abroad, but his family members were arrested and harassed.
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