The Los Angeles Times gives the latest on the case of blind activist Chen Guangcheng:
In a 30-minute session early today, the Yinan County court upheld the harsh sentence for destroying public property and “organizing a mob to disturb traffic,” charges Chen’s attorneys said were trumped up.
“I’m very shocked,” Chen’s wife, Yuan Weijing, said from a hospital bed. “We didn’t expect authorities to play the role of hooligan again and hand down the same sentence.”
Yuan checked herself into a hospital because of stress from the case. She was detained for nine hours Tuesday by local police officials who were worried she might travel to Beijing, she said, the latest in a series of beatings, harassment and acts of intimidation she and her husband have endured over the last year. [Full text]
