China’s top court lists jailing rights activists as its biggest achievement
Supreme court and top prosecutor’s office pat themselves on the back for safeguarding state security by sentencing those who subverted state power
The jailing of rights activists was considered the biggest achievement of China’s supreme court and the top prosecutor’s office last year, according to the two bodies’ annual work reports released on Sunday.
“[We] severely punished state security crimes, and sentenced subversion cases such as that of [rights lawyer] Zhou Shifeng,” the Supreme People’s Court report read.
The prosecutions of Zhou and Hu Shigen, another rights activist, were also among the Supreme People’s Procuratorate’s most prominent achievements last year, according to its report.
The supreme court ranked “safeguarding state security” first among its list of achievements over the past year – even ahead of its fight against terrorism and religious cults.
Zhou, a graduate from Peking University’s law school, was the founder of the prominent Beijing-based Fengrui law firm.