Chinese Court Sentences Dissident to 4 Years for Sedition Conviction
Thirteen months after convicting him, a Chinese court has sentenced a veteran dissident to four years in prison for circulating a political tract and calling for public mourning of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, his lawyer said Thursday.
The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court on Wednesday sentenced Jiang Qisheng for the sedition conviction it issued in November 1999, lawyer Mo Shaoping said.
The sentence included the 19 months Jiang has spent in prison, but the judges gave “no reasonable explanation” for the delay in sentencing, Mo said.
Prosecutors accused Jiang of disseminating an essay calling for peaceful political change and pasting up a self-penned appeal asking citizens to mark the 10th anniversary of the June 4, 1989, military assault that ended the protests at Tiananmen Square.
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