Breaking News – Fujin Farmers representative Wang Guilin sentenced
On 5 February Fujin farmer representative Wang Guilin in Heilongjiang was sentenced to a year and a half in prison, and was sent to the re-education through labour camp in Jiamusi City on that same morning.
According to Wang Guilin’s wife, Sun Xu Rong “On 29 January this year when Wang Guilin was on trial, the local authority accused Wang Guilin of the alleged charge of “disrupting the social order.”
On 10 January 2008, Wang Guilin received a phone call from Fujin government officials; he was invited for an interview about the land acquisition. When Wang Guilin went there for the interview he was taken away and detained by the public security until now. Wang Guilin is a farmer from Fujin city in Heilongjiang province. In 1996, Wang Guilin’s land in Xing Hu village and lands of another seven villages has been expropriated, and they became landless peasants.
On the eve of June 4 2007, Wang Guilin, farmer rights representative Yang Chunlin from Heilongjiang and Yu Changwu together proposed the “human rights no Olympic Game” slogan. They disclosed the truth about the landloss to overseas media. The public Security Bureau in Jiamusi City arrested three of them and after Wang Guilin was detained for 27 days, he was released due to the fact that “he did not constitute a crime”.
On 9 December 2007, Wang Guilin and Yu ChangWu joined to issue a notice on the overseas website; on behalf of the 40000 landless peasants in Fujin, publicly announced their 13 years of ownership of the lands that were illegal occupied by the Government. They even implemented the subdivision actions, and their action immediately led landless peasants from the Shaanxi and Jiangsu to respond. This was known to the outside world as China’s “second agrarian revolution.”
The above news is brought to you by Gao Yun, and hosted by Chris Thomas for Breaking News on the SOH Radio Network.
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