Lü Gengsong (born. about 1957) is a Chinese writer

Writer

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 and civil rights activist

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. He is mostly recognized as the author

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 of the book "Corrupted Officials in China", which appeared in Hong Kong

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 in 2000. His work mostly reveals the corruptions of the Communist Party of China

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 and was imprisoned in 2008.

Arrest

Lü was reportedly taken into custody on August 24, 2007 on charges of "incitement to subvert state power" and "illegally possessing state secrets." In February 2008, the Intermediate People's Court

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 in Hangzhou

Hangzhou

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 announced the verdict over Lu to four years in jail. The "inciting subversion of state power" is generally known to be a very vague charge frequently used to silence people who criticize the Communist party. Lu's wife, Wang Xue told AFP from her home in Hangzhou

Hangzhou

Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...

that "The charges are groundless" and that the "Provincial and city governments just want to make him shut up".

Book: "Corrupted officials of China"

• The book disclosed illegal eviction cases where provinces and city officials plotted schemes with real estate developers.
• Grafting - corruptions where the politicians make a profit off the public's money.

External links

• "HRIC Protests Detention of Writer Lü Gengsong" (August 27, 2007)