Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang jailed 4.5 years for ‘subversion’

Beijing (AFP) – Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for state subversion on Monday, a northern Chinese court said.

Wang was “found guilty of subverting state power, sentenced to four years and six months in prison, and deprived of political rights for five years,” the Tianjin Second Intermediate People’s Court said in a statement.

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