Liu Xiaobo’s 11-year sentence has been upheld on appeal, Reuters reports:
Liu’s lawyer, Shang Baojun, told reporters his client’s appeal to the High Court had been rejected with no change in his sentence, which was meted out in December by the Beijing Intermediate People’s Court.
Liu, 54, was convicted of subversion for helping organize the “Charter 08” manifesto, which called for sweeping political reforms. He was detained shortly before it was released online in December 2008, and tried a year later.
…Diplomats from the United States and the European Union spoke to reporters outside the Beijing High Court and condemned the sentence.
It is the second sentencing this week of a Chinese dissident. A Chinese activist who sought to document shoddy construction that contributed to deaths in China’s devastating 2008 earthquake was sentenced to five years in prison for subversion, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
