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China rights activist sentenced to 5 years for subversion

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] A Chinese court sentenced land rights activist Yang Chunlin [Amnesty profile] to five years in prison Monday on charges of "inciting subversion of state power" [JURIST report] for circulating a petition declaring "we want human rights, not the Olympics," which was signed by over 10,000 people before Yang was arrested in July 2007. The Beijing Olympics [official website] are scheduled to

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).

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