Chongqing City People’s Court Ruled Netizen“Fang Zhusun RTL Illegal

• Author: China Law Digest

On April 21, 2011, Chongqing City Fuling District Forestry Bureau employee, Fang Hong, using the name “Fang Zhusun” in the Tengxun Blog, expressed his opinion and commented on the Li Zhuang case. He said, “Bo Xilai put together a pot of stool, asked Wang Lijun to eat. Wang Lijun gave this pot of stool to the Procuratorate. The Procuratorate gave it to the Court. The Court gave it to Attorney Li Zhuang. Li Zhuang said that the stool was too stinky that nobody would take it, whoever makes it, who heat it.”

On April 28, Chongqing Re-education through Labor Committee concluded that Fang disturbed the order of the society so it was decided that Fang should be sentence to RTL for one year. On May 8, 2012, Fang Hong initiated an administrative litigation, to the...