🔴 27-year-old programmer #NiuTengyu# has spent nearly 7 years behind bars for maintaining a politically sensitive website, targeted by 🇨🇳 govt prosecution. Family hired 16 lawyers, still fighting the appeal. @UN_SPExperts urge #Beijing# to remedy this. 🔗

🚨 The #Guangdong# High Court has repeatedly blocked #NiuTengyu# 's lawyer from accessing his case files. Niu, a web administrator, was 20 when his prosecution began in 2019 and has since endured #torture# and mistreatment in detention. 👉

🔴 @UN_SPExperts have ruled that 🇨🇳 govt's detention of computer programmer #NiuTengyu# is "arbitrary." #Beijing# has held him for nearly seven years and his sentence doesn't end until 2033. 🔗