Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/11
By: Yang Sheng-ju, Frances Huang, Stanley Cheung and Y.F. Low
Taipei, Sept. 11 (CNA) Taiwanese human rights advocate Lee Ming-che (李明哲), who
Lee Ming-che
has been held by the Chinese authorities since March on charges of “subversion of state power,” pleaded guilty during a brief court appearance in China’s Hunan Province Monday.
Lee was remanded back into detention after the hearing.
Sentencing on the case will be issued on a yet-to-be-decided date, a judge at the Yueyang City Intermediate People’s Court announced.
According to a video published by the court on its Weibo microblogging site, Lee admitted to “attempting to subvert state power” in cooperation with Peng Yuhua (彭宇華), a Chinese citizen who has created several discussion groups critical of the government. [FULL STORY]
