{"id":828,"date":"2009-09-09T09:39:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T13:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/guorui\/?p=828"},"modified":"2009-09-11T11:57:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T15:57:14","slug":"on-freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/2009\/09\/09\/on-freedom-of-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"On Freedom of Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/legal\/2009-09\/03\/xinsrc_432090603082259312643101.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chinese citizen can have freedom of speech if and only if it does not embarrass the government, said a Beijing prosecutor Zong Yuan through <a title=\"BJ daily\" href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/legal\/2009-09\/03\/content_11987573.htm\"><em>Beijing Daily<\/em><\/a>, commenting on Chinese government&#8217;s arrest of\u00a0a citizen Liu Yiming for\u00a0he had\u00a0questioned\u00a0in public\u00a0whether some local\u00a0Zhejiang officials in a high-profile case had manipulated criminal justice to favor a rich suspect. Here is the full quote:<\/p>\n<p>In our everyday life, it is understandable that ordinary citizens express their unsatisfactory feelings because of their distrust or misunderstanding of some administrative agencies. The government&#8217;s tolerance of these criticism shows our social progress and the confidence of our government. As long as it does not cause severe consequence or harm social stability, there should be nothing wrong for ordinary citizens to say something about their unsatisfactory or express a little criticism of the government.\u00a0\u00a0 But if it causes any chaotic result, that is a different story.<\/p>\n<p>(Original text:<\/p>\n<p>\u5728\u65e5\u5e38\u751f\u6d3b\u4e2d\uff0c\u666e\u901a\u6c11\u4f17\u51fa\u4e8e\u5bf9\u67d0\u4e9b\u884c\u653f\u673a\u5173\u7684\u4e0d\u4fe1\u4efb\u6216\u8bef\u89e3\uff0c\u5076\u5c14\u8bf4\u4e9b\u7262\u9a9a\u8bdd\u53d1\u6cc4\u4e0d\u6ee1\uff0c\u662f\u53ef\u4ee5\u7406\u89e3\u7684\u3002\u5bbd\u5bb9\u5bf9\u5f85\u6c11\u4f17\u5bf9\u653f\u5e9c\u673a\u5173\u7684\u5404\u79cd\u6279\u8bc4\uff0c\u65e2\u4f53\u73b0\u4e86\u793e\u4f1a\u7684\u8fdb \u6b65\uff0c\u4e5f\u662f\u8868\u73b0\u653f\u5e9c\u7684\u81ea\u4fe1\u548c\u52e4\u52c9\u3002\u666e\u901a\u6c11\u4f17\u6279\u8bc4\u653f\u5e9c\u51e0\u53e5\uff0c\u8d23\u9a82\u653f\u5e9c\u51e0\u53e5\uff0c\u53ea\u8981\u6ca1\u6709\u9020\u6210\u4e25\u91cd\u540e\u679c\uff0c\u6ca1\u6709\u5371\u5bb3\u793e\u4f1a\u7a33\u5b9a\uff0c\u53c8\u6709\u4f55\u4e0d\u53ef\uff1f\u4f46\u771f\u7684\u9020\u6210\u6df7\u4e71\u540e\u679c\uff0c\u5219\u5f53\u522b \u8bba\u3002)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese citizen can have freedom of speech if and only if it does not embarrass the government, said a Beijing prosecutor Zong Yuan through Beijing Daily, commenting on Chinese government&#8217;s arrest of\u00a0a citizen Liu Yiming for\u00a0he had\u00a0questioned\u00a0in public\u00a0whether some local\u00a0Zhejiang &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/2009\/09\/09\/on-freedom-of-speech\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1017],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments-on-news","category-in-english"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/guorui\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}