China jails online editor for subversion – Reuters

From Reuters:

A Chinese court jailed an editor of a news portal for six years on Monday for inciting subversion by publishing anti-government essays, his lawyer said, the latest case in a government crackdown on dissent.

The Intermediate People’s Court in Ningbo in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang convicted Zhang Jianhong, better known by his pen name is Li Hong, of “inciting to subvert state power”, lawyer Li Jianqiang told Reuters. [Full text]

Read more about the Aegean Sea website that Zhang Jianhong used to run before it was shut down.

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