China sentences legal activist to 4 years in jail
By AP News Jan 26, 2014
Zhang Qingfang, lawyer of legal scholar and founder of the New Citizens movement Xu Zhiyong, center, speaks to the medias near the No. 1 Intermediate People's Court, where Xu stood for his verdict in Beijing Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014. A Beijing court on Sunday sentenced a legal scholar and founder of a social movement to four years in jail for disrupting order in public places, in a case that the U.S. government and other critics say is retribution against his push to fight corruption and create equal educational opportunities. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
BEIJING (AP) — A Beijing court on Sunday sentenced a legal scholar and founder of a social movement to four years in prison for disrupting order in public places, a case that the U.S. government and other critics say is retribution for his push to fight corruption and create equal educational opportunities.