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Daobin Du (* 1964 in Wuhan , Hubei Province , China ) is one of the first cyber dissident writers in China. Du was arrested in 2003 for posting articles on the Internet both in China and abroad. In 2004 he was charged with "inciting to undermine state power" and was sentenced to three years in prison. You weren't immediately locked up in prison at the time, instead he received four years probation.

You were an employee of the district government , a staunch communist and had read the works of Marx , Lenin and Mao Zedong . After the events of the Tian'anmen massacre in 1989, You felt sorry for the students and opposed the killing that had occurred. This was an ideological and political turning point for you. Since he was not yet officially a member of the Communist Party , he withdrew his application. He started writing for the democracy movement and since 1997 has explored the idea of liberalism and democracy in China.

biography

The Chinese authorities arrested Du Daobin on October 28th, 2003 for posting articles on the Internet promoting democracy and respect for human rights. He was sentenced to three years in prison and four years probation in 2004. You served seven and a half months of his sentence before he was released.

In July 2008, you was arrested again. The police said he would have to spend the remaining years of his sentence in prison. Apparently for "violating his term", during which he published more than 100 articles on the Internet, and because the recipients had not received permission from the police. Some did not want the world's attention to be drawn to these items during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics .

According to Du's wife, Xia Chunrong, the police searched her home for over an hour and confiscated his computer and some items. "They gave me five or six reasons why they took him away," Xia said. One reason was that you should have violated the rules of suspension and he went out without prior permission. Xia said that his parole expired on August 3rd and that you would have served about two more years of his sentence.

Daobin Du was released from prison in 2010.

You Daobin versus Cisco Systems

In June 2011, you submitted Daobin, Zhou Yuanzhi and Liu Xianbin the District Court for the District of Maryland in USA against Cisco Systems , and some executives of Cisco lawsuit because Cisco supposed "knowledge had and intentional aid for harassment, detention and torture of political activists , by the Chinese Communist Party. ”Cisco responded to the indictment in a blog post on June 6, 2011.

In August 2011, you was arrested by Chinese police and interrogated by senior officials from the Chinese Public Security Ministry . Dus interrogators warned him about his Internet activity and demanded information about his role in the Du v Cisco case, including names of his American and Chinese contacts.

The Maryland federal district court dismissed the Du Daobin case against Cisco Systems in February 2014. The Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized this decision, which "largely evaded the specific question of when corporations were responsible for building special technologies made for oppressive governments for the explicit purpose of prosecuting activists who then face human rights abuses such as torture can be made ". In addition, citing the fact that US law allowed Cisco to export its products, the court alleged that it was forbidden to appeal to victims of China's human rights abuses . It was argued that “Cisco's involvement in human rights abuses in China is a 'political issue', although neither the United States nor the Chinese government were opposed to pursuing the case. This is normally supposed to happen when governments expect a significant negative impact on Sino-American relations . "

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  1. ↑ a b Who is you Daobin? , Ward & Ward, August 16, 2011, accessed August 29, 2017
  2. ↑ Jiquan Cai, Prisoner Profile: Du Daobin (PDF), Human Rights in China, 2004, accessed on August 29, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Richmond, Who is Du Daobin ?: The Story of a Cyber ​​Dissident , WikiLeaks, August 16, 2011, accessed August 29, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Luisetta Mudie, Dissident Jailed Ahead of Olympic s, Radio Free Asia, July 21, 2008, accessed August 29, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Larry Siems, Chinese Writer Du Daobin Re-Arrested as Crackdown Continues , PEN America, July 21, 2008, accessed August 29, 2017
  6. ^ Moses Asher, Cisco Sued By Chinese Political Prisoners Over 'Golden Shield, ' The Sydney Morning Herald, August 16, 2011, accessed August 29, 2017
  7. ^ Don Tennant, Second Lawsuit Accuses Cisco of Enabling China to Oppress Citizens , ITBusinessEdge, June 9, 2011, accessed August 29, 2017
  8. ↑ Mark Chandler, Cisco Supports Freedom of Expression, an Open Internet and Human Rights , Cisco Blogs, June 6, 2011, accessed August 29, 2017
  9. ↑ Dan Ward, you Daobin interrogated by Ministry of Public Security , Laogai Research Foundation, August 3rd 2011, accessed on August 29, 2017
  10. ↑ Cindy Cohn; Rainey Reitman, Maryland Court Dismisses Landmark Case That Sought to Hold Cisco Responsible for Violating Human Rights , Electronic Frontier Foundation, February 27, 2014, accessed August 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME You, Daobin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese dissident
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuhan