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Sympathy for Beijing wheelchair bomber jailed for six years
BEIJING -- A disabled Chinese man was jailed for six years Tuesday for setting off an explosion at Beijing's international airport in protest at alleged police brutality, provoking a new outburst of public sympathy.
Ji Zhongxing, 34, who lost his left hand in the blast in July and appeared on a stretcher for both his trial and his sentence, was convicted of causing an explosion, Beijing's court authorities said on a verified social media account.
Photos released by state media showed Ji in pajamas, with his hands folded, his head shaved and a white blanket pulled up over his body.
He was flanked by two uniformed, white-gloved police officers who stood to attention on either side of the gurney.
Many online commenters expressed empathy for Ji, a former motorcycle driver who was confined to a wheelchair after reportedly being the victim of a brutal beating by police officers in the southern city of Dongguan in 2005.
Before detonating his homemade device, Ji passed out leaflets highlighting his struggle to sue authorities for the attack and warned passers-by to move away.
Ji had "lost all hope with society" following an unsuccessful battle for compensation, Hong Kong media reported previously, and analysts said the bombing spotlighted how frustration over low-level abuses in China can flare up.
But the court said Tuesday any actions to seek justice must be done in a "legal, rational and orderly manner."
"People must not infringe others' lawful rights or endanger public safety by taking extreme actions under the name of defending rights," the city's legal authorities said in a separate Sina Weibo post.
But Internet users were critical of the verdict and sentence, condemning China's justice system.
"How many people on the bottom rung of society would choose to 'defend their rights in a legal manner?' And have China's bureaucrats and so-called laws defended their rights?" wrote one user under the court posting.
"Those who talk nonsense are either idealists or assisting the evildoers, or they are thugs backed by the powerful."
Another user said: "(Ji) has been leading such a miserable life but (the court) bullies the weak instead of bringing his case to justice by stopping crimes at the point of origin. Isn't it afraid of being punished by God?"
Analysts said that the six-year sentence was designed to tread a line between being too lenient and avoiding a renewed public backlash.
"Obviously, they gave him a safe jail term to emphasize the point that the state has zero tolerance of such acts of vengeance against the state," said Willy Lam, a specialist in Chinese politics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Sympathy for Beijing wheelchair bomber jailed for six years - The China Post
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Apparently, with money flowing into the pocket and a better life, the Chinese people are finding time to think of their plight.
While they have endured the writ of the CCP unquestioned so far, the winds of change in China economically, is giving the Chinese a touch of what the free world is all about.
Naturally, they are outraged with the injustice that the Govt and the CCP has so long meted out to them with an iron hand.
It is good sign and indicates that the Communists are nol loner demigods and will have to respond or face a revolution that will overthrow them for the good of the people and China!
BEIJING -- A disabled Chinese man was jailed for six years Tuesday for setting off an explosion at Beijing's international airport in protest at alleged police brutality, provoking a new outburst of public sympathy.
Ji Zhongxing, 34, who lost his left hand in the blast in July and appeared on a stretcher for both his trial and his sentence, was convicted of causing an explosion, Beijing's court authorities said on a verified social media account.
Photos released by state media showed Ji in pajamas, with his hands folded, his head shaved and a white blanket pulled up over his body.
He was flanked by two uniformed, white-gloved police officers who stood to attention on either side of the gurney.
Many online commenters expressed empathy for Ji, a former motorcycle driver who was confined to a wheelchair after reportedly being the victim of a brutal beating by police officers in the southern city of Dongguan in 2005.
Before detonating his homemade device, Ji passed out leaflets highlighting his struggle to sue authorities for the attack and warned passers-by to move away.
Ji had "lost all hope with society" following an unsuccessful battle for compensation, Hong Kong media reported previously, and analysts said the bombing spotlighted how frustration over low-level abuses in China can flare up.
But the court said Tuesday any actions to seek justice must be done in a "legal, rational and orderly manner."
"People must not infringe others' lawful rights or endanger public safety by taking extreme actions under the name of defending rights," the city's legal authorities said in a separate Sina Weibo post.
But Internet users were critical of the verdict and sentence, condemning China's justice system.
"How many people on the bottom rung of society would choose to 'defend their rights in a legal manner?' And have China's bureaucrats and so-called laws defended their rights?" wrote one user under the court posting.
"Those who talk nonsense are either idealists or assisting the evildoers, or they are thugs backed by the powerful."
Another user said: "(Ji) has been leading such a miserable life but (the court) bullies the weak instead of bringing his case to justice by stopping crimes at the point of origin. Isn't it afraid of being punished by God?"
Analysts said that the six-year sentence was designed to tread a line between being too lenient and avoiding a renewed public backlash.
"Obviously, they gave him a safe jail term to emphasize the point that the state has zero tolerance of such acts of vengeance against the state," said Willy Lam, a specialist in Chinese politics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Sympathy for Beijing wheelchair bomber jailed for six years - The China Post
***************************************************
Apparently, with money flowing into the pocket and a better life, the Chinese people are finding time to think of their plight.
While they have endured the writ of the CCP unquestioned so far, the winds of change in China economically, is giving the Chinese a touch of what the free world is all about.
Naturally, they are outraged with the injustice that the Govt and the CCP has so long meted out to them with an iron hand.
It is good sign and indicates that the Communists are nol loner demigods and will have to respond or face a revolution that will overthrow them for the good of the people and China!
