CHINA ACCUSES SECOND 'WEB DISSIDENT' OF 'SUBVERSION'

By: Mark Fitzgerald Online Reporting Lands Journalists In Jail



Huang Qi, the editor of a Web site devoted to human rights in China,
faces a 10-year jail sentence after his arrest by Chinese authorities
last Saturday on charges of 'subversion.'



According to the Paris-based free press organization Reporters Without
Borders (RSF, for its initials in French), Huang Qi and his wife were
arrested at their home in the Sichauan province. She was released on
Tuesday, but he remains in jail on subversion charges related to
publishing articles that denounce the Tianamen Square massacre of June
1989. The Web site, http://www.6-

4tianwang.com, published about a dozen articles relating to the
incident, RSF reported.



Huang is the second 'Web dissident' arrested in recent days. On May 30,
after a trial of just five hours, Qi Yanchen was convicted of writing
articles for the e-mail pro-democracy newsletter VIP Reference. He
faces a sentence of five years in jail.



Last August, RSF named China to its
list of 'the 20 enemies of the Internet.' RSF is now developiong an
English-language site.