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Zhou Shifeng Sentenced to 7 Years for Subversion

A Tianjin court has sentenced lawyer Zhou Shifeng to seven years in prison for “subversion of state power,” making him the third rights advocate detained in last year’s “Black Friday” crackdown to receive a sentence for that charge this week. Zhou was the director of the Beijing Fengrui law firm, which has handled some of the China’s highest profile rights cases in recent years, and was at the center of the sweeping roundup of rights