China Jails Human Rights Lawyer for 7 Years on Subversion Charges

Yang Fan and Xin Lin  |  Radio Free Asia A court in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin sentenced a leading human rights lawyer to seven years in prison on Thursday, the third subversion trial this week of attorneys and activists who were rounded up in a sweeping crackdown on rights defenders a year ago. Zhou […]

Veteran Shenzhen Rights Activist Gets Three Years For 'Subversion'

<!–[CDATA[Yang Fan and Xin Lin  |  Radio Free Asia Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Tuesday handed down a three-year jail term for subversion to a Shenzhen-based rights activist who helped ordinary people petition the government over violations of their rights, his lawyer said. Yang Mingyu, better known by his pseudonym Yang […]