One year after they were arrested, Boxun's reporter SUN Lin and his wife HE Fang will be trialed on May 30.

SUN Lin (Pen name: Jie Mu) and his wife HE Fang were arrested on May 30, 2007. Before the arrest SUN was very active in reporting civil rights incidents in Nanjing and other regions in China. HE helped in video editing and interviewing.

In March, 2007, SUN was visited by police after he reported a driver beaten up by city uniformed officers. SUN was warned to stop reporting for Boxun. SUN did not stop and continued to report as he insisted that he has the right to report as a Chinese citizen.

On May 30, 2007, police raided his home and SUN and HE were arrested. They were charged four ¡°crimes¡± originally, none of them related to their activities for Boxun. The case was returned to police twice as lacking of evidence. In the trial, they will be charged for two ¡°crimes¡±: 1) Conceal weapon (gas pressured pistol in sport): none of the guns was found in SUN¡¯s home or car; 2) Disturbing social order: it was an incident in 2004 when SUN was hired to facilitate a relocation of nursery by city garden bureau. SUN help negotiation and the whole process accompanied by police. There was no social order problem. According to SUN¡¯s lawyer Mr. Mo Shaoping, it was a civil dispute, not a crime case at all.