Hunger Striker’s Sister Sentenced to Hard Labor
The sister of a veteran labor activist in China has been sentenced to three years in a labor camp for helping him stage a hunger strike, a human rights group said.
Li Wangling was charged with subversion and sentenced this month in Shaoyang in the southern province of Hunan, said the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.
Li’s brother, Wangyang, served a prison term for “counterrevolutionary activity” and was released in June 2000. Contending that prison abuse ruined his health, he went on a hunger strike in February.
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