I observed the anti-Japanese protests in Shanghai a few weeks ago. While the violence and vandalism was repulsive and the perpetrators should have been punished, a five-year sentence for an alleged organizer is needlessly severe.

I feel totally sorry and sad for Mr. TANG Ye, the author of "A detailed instruction on the Protest Against Right Wing Japanese", an email which has been widely circulated on the internet a few days before the Anti-Japanese protest in Shanghai.   

It
turned out that the instructions Tang wrote were intended for
circulation internally at his workplace only. But someone from his
company posted it to the world wide web without omitting Tang’s name
and contact information.

Once the word was out, the message was unstoppable.  By noon time, it was wide-spread.

Mr. Tong, a white-collar worker in Shanghai, landed a five year jail term for what he wrote.

More than 20,000 protesters attended the anti-Japanese protests in Shanghai. I hope that even more join the newest protest.

…from now on until May 16th, put a yellow ribbon on trees in Shanghai’s
People Square, "to express our best wishes" for Tang Ye.