Lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi, who argued for civil rights and a transition to democratic rule in China, were sentenced to more than a decade in jail
A court in China has sentenced two of the country’s leading human rights activists to over a decade in prison for subverting state power, following a closed-door trial last year.
Chinese rights advocate Xu Zhiyong speaks during a meeting in Beijing in this file handout photo dated March 30, 2013.The weiquan, or “rights protection” movement, saw some successes, but has been steadily suppressed since President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. Many prominent lawyers have fled China or been jailed, with both Mr. Xu and Mr. Ding imprisoned for several years in 2014 for “gathering crowds to disrupt the public order.
Mr. Ding was arrested soon afterward, along with many other participants. Mr. Xu went on the run, during which he published a blistering open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, calling on him to resign. “Why is it ‘subversion’ to aspire to be real citizens? Why is it ‘subversion’ for Chinese to exercise their core values and pursue democracy and freedom?” he said. “How hypercritical and absurd their regime is! How rotten it is!”
Mr. Ding too, in his own statement, looked to the future, saying “the megalomania of dictatorship and the eternal one-party state is fast coming to an end, and the social transformation of China is growing closer, day by day.”
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