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The First Victim on the Altar of the Evil Empire

Tienchi martin-Liao文 /Tienchi martin-Liao
2020-09-13
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Li Bifeng in Beijing before the third imprisonment. Picture from Chinesepen.org

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Li went to prison a second time in 1998 because he investigated and reported about a strike in Mianyang, Sichuan Province. However, in the court indictment he was accused of economic fraud, and lost seven years of freedom in jail.

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Li Bifeng’s trial, which was scheduled for this May, was postponed while Liao Yiwu started a worldwide campaign to appeal for his freedom. Meanwhile Liao received acknowledgment and fame in the West, for his literary reportage in: The Corpse Walker, God is Red, For a Song and a Hundred Songs, and Bullets and Opium, which are published in multiple languages and have gathered a broad readership. In the last two books Liao described his friend Li as a sensitive and devoted poet, who goes after his political and literary ideas without considering the consequences. Liao received the Geschwister Scholl Awards in Germany and the Kapuzinski Award in Poland, yet his success means bad luck for his friend.

Recently Liao also received the prestigious Friedenspreis prize from the German Book Trade during the Frankfurt Book Fair. At the ceremony, Liao delivered a courageous speech in which he predicted that an empire, where soldiers kill children, the basic human rights of millions are abused, and freedom of expression is impoverished, must and will fall apart. His speech raised attention and discussion in the West, but annoyed the Chinese authority, who called him mentally unstable. Four weeks later, his friend Li Bifeng was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The indictment this time was for “contract fraud.”

Li had been held in detention for 14 months and the authority wanted to incriminate him on the charges of “contract fraud,” but were not able to gather enough evidence. Now they refuse to even verify his signature on the contract that he has been accused of violating. Actually, Li would normally be sentenced to “inciting subversion of state power,” but knowing that this is not a good label for the Chinese judiciary, “economic crime” becomes a rubber stamp that passes for all kinds of accusations. Of course, corrupt officers and public servants in China have stolen billions of dollars without any legal consequences, yet poets or artists like Li Bifeng or Ai Weiwei are charged as economic criminals because of their engagement against social and political injustice. Interestingly enough, Li Bifeng’s unusually heavy sentence came right after the CCP’s 18th Party Congress. Is this a warning for all the uncomfortable dissidents in China? Twelve years is too much—not only for political, but also for economic crimes—in the empire’s judicial system. Thus, this can only be understood as retaliation: Li Bifeng paid for his friend’s bold speech abroad.

Does this gesture from China’s new leadership show their arrogance, or their inferiority complex? How can we trust the party chief and president when he says that he wants to continue to reform the opening policy of his country if the state continues to use the apparatus to suppress other opinions? The intellectuals in China do not expect much from the new government; they only humbly hope that it will not do more evil. Nevertheless, poor Li Bifeng has become the first victim on the altar of the evil empire.

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There were many actions and appeals for rescuing Li Bifeng. A Worldwide Reading for Li Bifeng was held on June 4, 2013. The appeal calls on schools, universities, radio and television stations, theaters etc. to hold reading of his works.

Li Bifeng’s novel The Wings of the Sky (Tiankong de chibang) is published 2018 both in Chinese and German (Die Flügel des Himmels) at Rudi-Verlag, Düsseldolf.

On April 8, 2020 after serving ten years, Li was released from prison. According to the information of Jinwenwang (www.bannedbook.org) , Li has been kept in quarantine in a hotel, his family could not find out his whereabouts.

First published at Sampsoniaway.org on December 5, 2012.

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