Five-Year Sentence For Xie Yang.

On the human rights front, a court in Changsha sentenced prominent lawyer Xie Yang to five years in prison today. Charged with inciting subversion of state power, the verdict cited several of his social media posts. The sentencing has drawn immediate criticism from international monitoring groups, who point to procedural violations during his four-year pretrial detention and his October trial, which was held in secret.

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