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发帖数: 5678 | 1 Reporting from Beijing — Norway and China are at odds over a case that
involves blood, passion and a fundamental concern about human rights, but
this time it's not about the Nobel Peace Prize.
Instead, it is a garden-variety homicide, a young woman — in this case
Norwegian — killed in Hungary, allegedly by her jilted lover, a Chinese
student.
When it was learned this month that Chinese officials had freed the suspect,
despite an apparent confession, many Norwegians saw the move as a blatant
act of retaliation by China for the Oslo-based Nobel committee having
awarded its annual peace prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
But as more facts emerge, the case appears to center on another political
difference between Europe and China: capital punishment, which China
frequently employs but which European Union members have abolished.
In fact, EU opposition to the death penalty includes restrictions on
providing evidence to other countries in cases where the accused could face
execution.
Since Hungary didn't hand over evidence in the stabbing death of 21-year-old
Pernille Marie Thronsen, whose body was found in a Budapest youth hostel,
Chinese authorities said they had no grounds to continue holding Zhao Fei,
who had flown home to China shortly after the killing.
"This is a unique case," said Tang Hongxin, a Beijing criminal defense
attorney. "Although he turned himself into police and might have confessed,
the police cannot charge him without supporting evidence."
Talk about unique: In perhaps the ultimate twist, human rights advocates
long critical of China for its disdainful treatment of opposition figures
such as Nobel winner Liu, are now in the position of praising China for
respecting homicide suspect Zhao's legal rights.
"I think it was a good measure for the Chinese saying they had to release
Zhao," said Gerald Folkvord, a political advisor to Amnesty International in
Oslo.
He added, though, that it is now up to China and Hungary to strike a deal so
that the suspect is tried and sent to prison if found guilty. "It is also a
human rights obligation that a person who committed a serious violent crime
be brought to justice," Folkvord said.
The night of Aug. 28, Thronsen, a veterinary student, failed to show up at a
concert where she was supposed to meet friends. The next day, her body was
discovered with multiple stab wounds by a hostel employee. She had been dead
about 24 hours.
Hungarian police quickly focused on Zhao, 26, a fellow student whom she had
dated and broken up with.
The room had been rented in his name and surveillance cameras recorded him
leaving the hostel shortly after the apparent time of death. On the day that
her body was discovered, Zhao posted a message on Thronsen's Facebook page
that read almost like an admission of guilt.
"I was in love. I was in pain. I was sick. … I hope you don't hate me. I
hope when I die we will meet and be together again. I will cook for you,
look after you, stay by your side all the time," read Zhao's missive, posted
next to photographs of the two in happier times — she with tousled blond
ringlets and geometric European eyeglasses, and he with a crew cut and even-
toothed smile.
Zhao flew home to China before he could be arrested by Hungarian police. On
Sept. 1, the day Thronsen's funeral was held at Oslo's Valerenga Church,
Zhao turned himself in to Beijing police and according to reports in the
Norwegian media, confessed to the crime.
It seemed like an open-and-shut case — until Norwegians learned weeks later
, shortly after the Nobel peace prize announcement on Oct. 8, that Zhao had
been released.
At first, Norwegians suspected Zhao's release was linked to China's anger
over the peace prize.
China had called the award "blasphemy" since it was given to a "criminal,"
and threatened that it would damage bilateral relations with Norway, whose
parliament appoints the Nobel prize judges. In the following week, when Zhao
's release was made public, China also cancelled a meeting with a Norwegian
fisheries minister.
Angry friends of the slain girl called for a boycott of China and bloggers
from around the world vented.
Vindictive, petty," wrote one blogger. "Childish and evil. So they just set
a murderer loose among their own people. … That sounds like a pretty stupid
idea to me."
But the truth proved more complicated.
The Norwegian foreign ministry, urging calm, issued a strong statement
saying the suspect had been released before the prize was announced and that
there was "no relation" between the two.
It also turned out that Hungary had failed to turn over paperwork on the
case because of the EU regulation preventing member nations from cooperating
on cases that could lead to the death penalty, which Zhou could face if he
was tried on murder charges in China.
China executes more people than any other country in the world and while the
official number is a state secret, Amnesty International estimates that
thousands of people were put to death in 2009. Hungary abolished the death
penalty in 1990 and has been a member of the European Union since 2004.
"Normally in a case like this, the boy should be brought back to Hungary to
face trial, but since he is a Chinese citizen, the government said the trial
should take place in China and he would likely face the death penalty for
homicide," said Bela Varga, a Budapest-based lawyer involved in human rights
issues.
European opposition to the death penalty has at times complicated
extraditions to the United States. But a pact was signed last October making
it less cumbersome if U.S. prosecutors promise not to seek the death
penalty.
Almost nothing has appeared in the state-controlled Chinese media about Zhao
Fei, who former classmates say is the scion of a wealthy Beijing family who
own property in the south of France, according to Norwegian news reports.
Chinese authorities have not commented publicly since Zhao's release.
"We haven't had much luck finding out about his release or his whereabouts,"
said Karoline Henriksen, an Oslo-based lawyer representing Thronsen's
family. She said the family learned on Oct. 12, four days after the Nobel
Peace Prize was announced, that Zhao had been freed, but was told it had
happened earlier. The exact date is not clear.
Beijing criminal defense attorney Tang said that Chinese authorities had no
choice but to release Zhao after 30 days. He cited a 1996 Chinese law that
prohibits prosecution solely on the basis of a confession; it was enacted
with the aim of preventing torture.
However, Tang said that Zhao remains under surveillance and could be
arrested again if the Hungarian police turn over their files. He also said
that a deal could me made to spare Zhao the death penalty because he
surrendered voluntarily.
As for whether China did the right thing, Shanghaiist, a popular English-
language website, called it "rare (and ironic) display of legal compliance."
"Who cannot commend China's sudden passionate adherence to the
constitutional rule of law?" wrote columnist Robert Foyle. "Supporters of [
imprisoned Nobel laureate] Liu probably wish it weren't quite so
schizophrenic."
The case has also set off a debate in Norway about the death penalty. Many
fretted about what would happen to Zhao Fei if he is tried in China. "Poor
boy probably doesn't have long to live,'' wrote one Norwegian blogger.
But comments posted on the web site of the newspaper Dagbladet were harsher.
"At least [in China] he will get a punishment that fits the crime. … Here
in Norway he'd get a hotel room and compensation when he's done serving his
time. Let him hang if he's found guilty.'' | m********l
发帖数: 4394 | 2 这小子是中国人的骄傲
but
suspect,
blatant
Xiaobo.
【在 n******7 的大作中提到】
: Reporting from Beijing — Norway and China are at odds over a case that
: involves blood, passion and a fundamental concern about human rights, but
: this time it's not about the Nobel Peace Prize.
: Instead, it is a garden-variety homicide, a young woman — in this case
: Norwegian — killed in Hungary, allegedly by her jilted lover, a Chinese
: student.
: When it was learned this month that Chinese officials had freed the suspect,
: despite an apparent confession, many Norwegians saw the move as a blatant
: act of retaliation by China for the Oslo-based Nobel committee having
: awarded its annual peace prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
| V*U
发帖数: 2226 | 3 因为匈牙利抓了2个中国公民？
suspect,
【在 n******7 的大作中提到】
: Reporting from Beijing — Norway and China are at odds over a case that
: involves blood, passion and a fundamental concern about human rights, but
: this time it's not about the Nobel Peace Prize.
: Instead, it is a garden-variety homicide, a young woman — in this case
: Norwegian — killed in Hungary, allegedly by her jilted lover, a Chinese
: student.
: When it was learned this month that Chinese officials had freed the suspect,
: despite an apparent confession, many Norwegians saw the move as a blatant
: act of retaliation by China for the Oslo-based Nobel committee having
: awarded its annual peace prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
| V*U
发帖数: 2226 | 4 Since Hungary didn't hand over evidence in the stabbing death of 21-year-old
Pernille Marie Thronsen, whose body was found in a Budapest youth hostel,
suspect,
【在 n******7 的大作中提到】
: Reporting from Beijing — Norway and China are at odds over a case that
: involves blood, passion and a fundamental concern about human rights, but
: this time it's not about the Nobel Peace Prize.
: Instead, it is a garden-variety homicide, a young woman — in this case
: Norwegian — killed in Hungary, allegedly by her jilted lover, a Chinese
: student.
: When it was learned this month that Chinese officials had freed the suspect,
: despite an apparent confession, many Norwegians saw the move as a blatant
: act of retaliation by China for the Oslo-based Nobel committee having
: awarded its annual peace prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
| v*****s
发帖数: 20290 | 5 终于看明白了，欧洲sb自己搬了石头砸了脚。
因为中国有死刑，所以匈牙利警方不能把谋杀案的材料交给中国警方，所以没有证据的
中国警方就不能逮捕凶手。
这方法不错，以后去欧洲杀个人，然后就立马跑路回国。
suspect,
【在 n******7 的大作中提到】
: Reporting from Beijing — Norway and China are at odds over a case that
: involves blood, passion and a fundamental concern about human rights, but
: this time it's not about the Nobel Peace Prize.
: Instead, it is a garden-variety homicide, a young woman — in this case
: Norwegian — killed in Hungary, allegedly by her jilted lover, a Chinese
: student.
: When it was learned this month that Chinese officials had freed the suspect,
: despite an apparent confession, many Norwegians saw the move as a blatant
: act of retaliation by China for the Oslo-based Nobel committee having
: awarded its annual peace prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
| A*******e
发帖数: 12486 | 6 支持你这么干
but
blatant
Xiaobo.
【在 v*****s 的大作中提到】
: 终于看明白了，欧洲sb自己搬了石头砸了脚。
: 因为中国有死刑，所以匈牙利警方不能把谋杀案的材料交给中国警方，所以没有证据的
: 中国警方就不能逮捕凶手。
: 这方法不错，以后去欧洲杀个人，然后就立马跑路回国。
:
: suspect,
| f****m
发帖数: 79 | 7 great!!! make it stall here. hahahaha
but "bloggers" knew what kind of penalty fits a murderer. | p*****y
发帖数: 799 | 8 以後黑社會就從中國僱人去歐洲殺人就行了
【在 v*****s 的大作中提到】
: 终于看明白了，欧洲sb自己搬了石头砸了脚。
: 因为中国有死刑，所以匈牙利警方不能把谋杀案的材料交给中国警方，所以没有证据的
: 中国警方就不能逮捕凶手。
: 这方法不错，以后去欧洲杀个人，然后就立马跑路回国。
:
: suspect,
| r****2
发帖数: 470 | | r****2
发帖数: 470 | | r****2
发帖数: 470 | 11 男女都够丑
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