Caijing Online, 2009-04-11
Shenzhen lawyer, Liu Yao, was in court again for a rehearing of his trial of second instance in Heyuan, Guangdong Province. Liu was originally convicted of “intentionally destroying property” and sentenced to four years in prison for his role in defending farmers from his village against an illegal land appropriation by a hydroelectric company—he had helped lead protests that resulted in damaged equipment at the construction site. At an earlier retrial, the court reduced Liu's sentence to two years based on a revised damage assessment. Court arguments at yesterday's hearing focused on another previously-unreleased “on-site” assessment recently issued by local police and challenged by Liu's lawyer, who questioned why the highly-detailed assessment had not been presented at earlier hearings and suggested police had partially fabricated it.
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