Xu Zhiyong trial

Xu Zhiyong, civil society and anti-corruption activist, had for years worked within the system of China’s party-state to push for reforms. He came to prominence in 2003, when he and several other rights defense lawyers successfully campaigned for the abolition of a form of detention that lead to the death of a young man.

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On January 25, Xu was sentenced to four years in prison. The judgment, he told the court, “wiped out the Chinese legal system’s last shred of dignity.”

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