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Activist Ni Yulan and Husband Dong Jiqin Sentenced

Ni Yulan, who has been stripped of her lawyer’s license, beaten until she could no longer walk unaided, and repeatedly imprisoned for defending the rights of forced demolition victims, has received a further prison sentence of two years and eight months for fraud and “creating a disturbance”. The latter charge, for which her husband also received two years, involved incidents at a