Taiwan has slammed the secret trial of a publisher who sold books critical of the Communist Party. Li Yanhe, better known by his pen name Fu Cha, was tried in February after two years in Chinese detention, according to China's Taiwan Affairs Office.
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00:00Taiwan has slammed China's prosecution of a Taiwan-based publisher who sold books critical of the Communist Party.
00:07Li Yanhe, a Chinese national who's better known by his pen name Fuca, has been detained in China for two years.
00:14Beijing says he was tried on separatism charges in February, but the verdict hasn't been made public.
00:20Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council says China has suppressed all information about the trial.
00:27He was publicly used as a propaganda model.
00:31The entire trial was conducted in secrecy.
00:36Ordinary people don't know what he did.
00:39His evidence, and the information that the two sides used in the trial, is unknown to the outside world.
00:46He also emphasized that he was lying about the legal rights of the parties involved,
00:51and the legal rights of the defendants.