Friday, December 23, 2011

Chinese court jails democracy activist Chen Wei for nine years...

A Chinese court has sentenced a veteran democracy activist to nine years' imprisonment for inciting subversion, in the most severe punishment handed down in a crackdown on dissent this year.

Rights activist Chen Wei was convicted over four essays he wrote and published online, said his one of his lawyers, Liang Xiaojun. His wife said all the essays could only be viewed overseas because of firewall's in China's internet systems.

Chen was detained in February amid an expansive government crackdown in response to anonymous online calls urging Chinese to imitate protests in North Africa and the Middle East.

 Liang said the trial at a court in the city of Suining in southwestern China lasted about two and a half hours and that the sentence was handed down 30 minutes after the trial concluded. Full story...

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