Beijing jails academic activist who called on officials to follow the law

Posted on 28 January 2014. Tags: Academic, activist, Beijing, called, follow, jails, officials

Beijing jails academic activist who called on officials to follow the law China has handed a four-year prison sentence to a softly-spoken, academic who called on the Government for greater openness and has left the Communist Party leadership petrified by the word “citizen”. The sentencing of Xu Zhiyong, who became a father …

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