China hands out 9-year jail to activist for 'subversive' essays

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China hands out 9-year jail to activist for 'subversive' essays

BEIJING: Veteran Chinese rights activist Chen Wei was sentenced on Friday to nine years in jail for "subversion" , his lawyers said, in one of the harshest penalties handed down in a crackdown launched this year.

Chen, who was a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests, was among dozens of activists detained in February in the wake of the Arab Spring that sparked calls for anti-government demonstrations in China. The court in Suining city in southwest Sichuan province convicted the 42-year-old after a trial lasting less than three hours over essays he had written that were critical of the Communist Party, China Human Rights Defenders said.

After it was read out in court, Chen shouted out that he was innocent and declared "democracy will definitely prevail and dictators will definitely fall" , his lawyer said. Chen does not plan to appeal the sentence "because he feels this is a political sabotage ," his lawyer said.

Power-plant protesters face tear gas

Riot police in the southern Chinese coastal town of Haimen fired tear gas on Friday at protesters, including elderly men and women, on the fourth day of unrest over a planned power plant expansion, according to protesters' accounts and TV footage. They in the town of Haimen squared off near a highway entrance in Haimen, that has become the focal point for protests this week, with residents where protesters demanded that authorities release an unknown number of demonstrators.

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China hands out 9-year jail to activist for 'subversive' essays - The Times of India
It appears that the Chinese Govt is keen to protect their citizens from what they feel is 'subversive' activities.

Indeed, with the economic disparity within the population growing and crass display of wealth by the nouveau riche, the situation can create serious law and order problems, and with literature free flowing that is anti Govt, the things can get seriously out of control.

However, one wonders why Sichuan is the hotbed of dissent. The Tibetan nuns and monks immolations and a high state of 'subversive' thoughts and literature finding its way into the public arena. Are they more aware of their democratic rights than elsewhere in China?
 

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Fragamented China would not be good for Asia ?
United China is a bully !

What is the option left !

Left and more Left ??
 

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