Scholar Who Named Jiang Zemin a Traitor Released From Prison

Lu Jiaping, a Beijing scholar who called former Party leader Jiang Zemin a traitor, has been released on a medical parole.

Lu Jiaping, a Beijing scholar, has been released on medical parole. In an open letter in 2009, Lu denounced former Communist Party head Jiang Zemin for having assumed a fabricated identity NTDTV

When a Beijing scholar wrote an open letter calling out the regime’s former paramount leader as a traitor, he was basically making himself a target.

Lu Jiaping, the Beijing scholar and a member of the Chinese Research Society on the History of World War II, wrote an open letter with his real name in Dec. 2009, accusing Jiang Zemin of having assumed a falsified identity.

And on May 13, 2011, Lu was sentenced to ten years in prison on a charge of “inciting subversion of state power” by the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court.

Many Chinese dissidents have been put behind bars by the Chinese regime on the ambiguous charge of subversion of state power, including, for instance, Hu Jia, a campaigner for civil rights, environmental protection, and AIDS advocacy inside China.

The early release of Lu signals the weakening of Jiang's faction.

— Xia Xiaoqiang, political commentator