Cyberdissident Ouyang Yi sentenced to two years in prison [RFA]
Reporters Without Borders condemned as abusive a two-year prison sentence imposed on cyberdissident Ouyang Yi by a court in south-western Chengdu, for "incitement to subversion". The verdict was announced behind closed doors.
The sentence was as usual intended to brutally silence a voice that diverges from the Chinese Communist Party line, said the international press freedom organisation. It deplored the fact that Chinese courts persist in persecuting those simply expressing an opinion on the Internet. [more]
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