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...Finance chair Alexander “Zander” N. Li ’08 said he worried about future funding by the Council...
...remiss if I didn’t say this concerned me a little, the precedent we are setting here,” said Li. “We have to draw a very careful line to say that we allowed, on this specific occasion, a group to skirt around the party funds...
...lawyers say Chen's final formal appeal was turned down in December and since then they have had less and less opportunity to visit him, as there are no legal avenues left to pursue. Li told me that he last saw Chen on Jan. 15. He had lost weight, was plagued by serious stomach problems and was being denied privileges given to other prisoners such as being able to buy food items such as instant noodles. "It is very hard for him," Li said with a sigh. "Can you imagine what it's like to be in prison...
...Chen's only recourse now is China's Byzantine petitioning system, a holdover from imperial days that exists in parallel with the legal system. As Li notes, it is rare for a petition even to be accepted by the relevant office, much less be acted on. And in many cases, orders issued in Beijing or a provincial capital as a result of a successful petition are ignored by lower authorities. (Tiangao, huangdi yuan, the Chinese say: "Heaven is high and the Emperor is far away." Beijing has always had enormous trouble enforcing its will in the far-flung corners...
...Both Li and Teng are pretty formidable, too, and remain dedicated to their public interest vocations despite knowing full well what the consequences can be. Last December, Li and three other lawyers took a long distance bus from Beijing to visit Chen. The bus was stopped in mid-journey and a group of seven or eight unidentified men, some of them wielding iron bars, climbed on board and attacked the lawyers. "I keep a positive attitude," Li said, but inevitably such experiences "shake my belief in the legal system of this country." Then Li showed me a picture someone...