A Review of Speech Crime Cases in Recent-Year Mainland China Based on Judgements
Channel: 聯絡辦公室
Date: 2022-11-21

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This video reviews speech crime cases that happened in recent-year mainland China based on judgements collected by Twitter user ‘SpeechFreedomCN’. Thanks to their undaunted and unremitting effort, the worsening by day situations of freedom of speech in mainland China are recorded and revealed.

Please refer to their Twitter page for more: https://twitter.com/SpeechFreedomCN

Details of the procedure of criminal cases in mainland China can be found in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ThVCHrKMc4

[Sections]

00:00:01  Cases of ‘petitioners’
00:03:42  Conclusion and comments on the cases of ‘petitioners’
00:05:48  From ‘petitioners’ to purely political
00:07:43  Explaining the sources of the cases
00:11:27  What will happen if one chooses to share his judgement of political case
00:12:56  Explaining my choice on the cases to be discussed in this video
00:14:22  Cases of dissidents that suffered mental illnesses
00:16:45  A rare judgement that comes with a commentary of the judge
00:18:59  The characteristics of judgements of political cases
00:19:56   1. using vacuous and vague words;
00:21:48   2. the lack of description of motive;
00:22:24   3. the lack of details and the use of empty words and political slogans;
00:25:30  A concentration of the absurd accusations and what we can get from it
00:26:29  How low the bar is it today to put one into prison for what they said
00:28:24  Statistical findings of the selected speech crime cases
00:31:26  How long will they be sentenced to? From 6 to 50 months!
00:34:00  An educated guess—how many speech crime cases are there in a year?