(Adnkronos) – Three years in prison. On charges of “inciting secession”. It happens in China to a publisher who lived in Taiwan and published books critical of the Chinese Communist Party or in any case on topics considered ‘sensitive’. The story of Li Yanhe, director of Gusa Press, begins in March two years ago. He had disappeared after arriving in Shanghai to meet family. Then in April, People’s Republic authorities reported an investigation into allegations of endangering “national security”.
Only today, as reported by the Global Times, the Taiwan Affairs Office, responsible for relations between Beijing and Taipei, announced that Li was tried in Shanghai and sentenced, on February 17, to three years in prison and a fine of 50,000 yuan, the equivalent of over 6,300 euros. According to spokesman Chen Binhua, Li pleaded guilty.
Also known by the pseudonym Fu Cha, Li was born in 1971 in the Chinese province of Liaoning. He then moved to Shanghai and then again, in 2009, to Taiwan after marrying a Taiwanese girl. In Taiwan he founded Gusa Press. Beijing considers the island a “rebel province” and wants “reunification”, without ruling out the use of force.
