Fei Chang Dao

The following is a translation of a notice posted on the website of the Beijing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Beijing Municipal Supervision Commission. Zhang Guilin, Former Director of the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the Beijing People's Government, Expelled From the Party and Public Office for Serious Violations of Discipline and Law Source: Beijing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision Time: 2023-06-25 With the approval of the Beijing Party Committee, the Beijing Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision decided to expel Zhang Guilin (at the bureau level), the former director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the Beijing People's Government, as a sanction of expulsion from the Party and dismissal from public office. An investigation found that Zhang Guilin's political awareness was weak, and he kept hidden caches of, and read, books and periodi

 Translator' Notes: The Chinese text was generated by OCR'ing low-quality images of the original court judgment posted online. I have attempted to identify and correct the typographical errors that may have been introduced in the OCR process. This judgment is notable for several reasons: This is the first court judgment I've translated that quotes extensively from the opinions of government censors to justify the court's finding that certain speech is illegal and not constitutionally protected. It provides details of what the defendant said that was subversive that is, in my experience, unprecedented. Typically judges in the PRC are unwilling to specify what defendants in speech related prosecutions said that was illegal, unprotected speech. For example, in the Wang Aizhong judgment the judge merely noted that Wang "fabricated fake information, or knowingly disseminated fake information on the Internet." In this case, however, the judge not only provides exte