The women, who ran the state-owned construction company and were a member of the Chinese Communist Party, were detained in the spring after criticizing President Sia’s approach to the fight against coronavirus and likening the Chinese leader to a clown.
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A Beijing court has found Zhejiang guilty of embezzling 111 million yuan (CZK 379 million) and accepting bribes of 1.25 million yuan (CZK 4.27 million). According to the court, Žen repaid all the illegally acquired financial amounts, voluntarily confessed to all accusations, accepted the verdict and does not intend to appeal against it.
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In addition to the 18-year prison sentence, Women also received a fine of 4.2 million yuan (CZK 14.3 million), a Beijing court said on its website.
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Naked clown
Sixty-nine-year-old Women wrote an essay in the spring in which she responded to a speech by the president on February 23, which was watched by a teleconference through 170,000 party officials. Although he did not personally mention the head of state in it, he said that after seeing the speech, he “did not see the emperor in new clothes, but a clown undressed, who insists that he is the emperor.”
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“You do not hide the slightest effort to be an emperor or your determination to destroy anyone who does not allow you to do so,” he wrote. The women also said that the lack of freedom of the press in China had contributed to the fact that the fight against coronavirus had not started earlier and that the whole situation had worsened. His essay later spread on the Internet.
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