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Beijing : A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer was sentenced to two years in prison for 'inciting subversion' one last Tuesday.
The latest jailing in an intensifying crackdown on rights defenders, under newly empowered President Xi Jinping.
Germany and human rights group condemned the jailing of Jiang Tianyong, 46, who had taken on many high-profile cases including those of Falun Gong practitioners-
Tibetan protestors and victims of the 2008 contaminated milk powder scandal- Before being disbarred in 2009.
Jiang's sentence is the most high-profile jailing since Xi confirmed his status as China's most powerful leader in a generation at a Communist Party congress last month.
Jiang sat in court flanked by two police officers as a judge read the sentence and told him he would also be deprived of political rights for three years,, according to a video released by the Changsha Intermediate People's Court.
The court accused him of ''inciting subversion of state power'' and defaming the government following a trial that Amnesty International called a ''total sham''.
''Jiang Tianyong has long been influenced by anti-China forces and gradually formed the idea of overthrowing the existing political system of the country,'' the judge said.
The court said he had gone abroad for training on how to accomplish the goal and ''applied for financial support from foreign anti-China forces.''
German Ambassador to China Michael Clauss expressed ''serious concerns about the lawfulness of the legal proceedings,'' saying in a statement the trial's circumstances-
''Certainly called into question the fairness of the verdict.''
Germany will ''continue to take an active interest in his fate,'' he added.
Beijing : A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer was sentenced to two years in prison for 'inciting subversion' one last Tuesday.
The latest jailing in an intensifying crackdown on rights defenders, under newly empowered President Xi Jinping.
Germany and human rights group condemned the jailing of Jiang Tianyong, 46, who had taken on many high-profile cases including those of Falun Gong practitioners-
Tibetan protestors and victims of the 2008 contaminated milk powder scandal- Before being disbarred in 2009.
Jiang's sentence is the most high-profile jailing since Xi confirmed his status as China's most powerful leader in a generation at a Communist Party congress last month.
Jiang sat in court flanked by two police officers as a judge read the sentence and told him he would also be deprived of political rights for three years,, according to a video released by the Changsha Intermediate People's Court.
The court accused him of ''inciting subversion of state power'' and defaming the government following a trial that Amnesty International called a ''total sham''.
''Jiang Tianyong has long been influenced by anti-China forces and gradually formed the idea of overthrowing the existing political system of the country,'' the judge said.
The court said he had gone abroad for training on how to accomplish the goal and ''applied for financial support from foreign anti-China forces.''
German Ambassador to China Michael Clauss expressed ''serious concerns about the lawfulness of the legal proceedings,'' saying in a statement the trial's circumstances-
''Certainly called into question the fairness of the verdict.''
Germany will ''continue to take an active interest in his fate,'' he added.
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