Yang Hengjun faced a closed trial last Thursday and the court deferred its verdict to a later date.
The Australian government on Friday labeled his incarceration since he arrived in China in January 2019 arbitrary detention.
The Associated Press on Monday saw the crime novelist and blogger’s account of the legal proceedings circulated among his supporters over the weekend.
Yang said he had a meeting with his trial judge three days before his one-day trial. The judge refused his request to submit evidence and call witnesses during the trial, but agreed to include almost 100 pages of defense documents in his case file.
“I made a plea to the judge to exclude my interrogation records from the court proceedings,” Yang said.
“It’s illegal. Torture. They had hidden camera records,” Yang added.
Source: https://wtop.com/asia/2021/05/man-urges-chinese-judge-to-reject-torture-tainted-evidence/
