3 Get Jail Terms for Defacing Portrait of Mao
A Chinese court imposed jail sentences of life, 20 years and 16 years respectively on three men who threw ink and paint on the giant portrait of Chairman Mao Tse-tung in Beijing’s Tian An Men Square during pro-democracy protests in May.
The Beijing Evening News said that the capital’s Intermediate Court found Yu Zhijian, Yu Dongyue and Lu Decheng, all from south China’s Hunan province, guilty of “counterrevolutionary destruction and counterrevolutionary incitement.”
The three pasted “reactionary posters” on the Gate of Heavenly Peace at the north end of the square before throwing paint-filled eggshells and an ink bottle at Mao’s portrait on May 23, the paper said.
The three were then seized by student democracy activists and handed over to police.
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