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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

China jailing of rights website founder aimed at grassroots activism: group

A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced the founder of a website that reported on human rights abuses to five years in jail for "inciting subversion" of state power, a verdict decried by a rights group as part of a campaign to bury grassroots activism.


from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2HxVPdM

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