Journalist Gets 10 Years for Leaking State Secrets
From Times Wire Reports
A Chinese journalist who worked for a financial newspaper was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of giving state secrets to foreigners.
Shi Tao’s family said the sentence was the minimum possible for his March conviction.
Shi worked at the Contemporary Business News and was convicted of leaking the contents of a confidential memo at the paper to a foreign publication, the official New China News Agency reported said. It didn’t explain the nature of the memo or identify the foreign publication.
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