17 August 2007

Stories from 17 August 2007

China: Cyber-dissident jailed for four years.

  17 August 2007

A Chinese court in the southeastern province of Zhejiang jailed Chen Shuqing, an online author and a founding member of the banned China Democracy Party, for four years on charges of “inciting to subvert state power”. “It's totally wrong to convict him … He was only expressing his political views....