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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court has jailed four Internet activists for up to 10 years on subversion charges after 20 months in legal limbo, a human rights group said on Thursday. The Beijing Intermediate People's Court sentenced geologist Jin Haike, 27, and Xu Wei, 28, a journalist for Beijing's Consumer Daily, to 10 years in prison each on Wednesday, the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights in China said.
Yang Zili, a 31-year-old computer engineer, and Zhang Honghai, a 29-year-old freelance writer, got eight years each. The court declined to comment. China has jailed a number of Internet writers in recent years as part of a crackdown on dissent on the Web. The government has created a special Internet police force, filtered foreign sites and shut down others posting politically incorrect fare.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court has jailed four Internet activists for up to 10 years on subversion charges after 20 months in legal limbo, a human rights group said on Thursday. The Beijing Intermediate People's Court sentenced geologist Jin Haike, 27, and Xu Wei, 28, a journalist for Beijing's Consumer Daily, to 10 years in prison each on Wednesday, the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights in China said.
Yang Zili, a 31-year-old computer engineer, and Zhang Honghai, a 29-year-old freelance writer, got eight years each. The court declined to comment. China has jailed a number of Internet writers in recent years as part of a crackdown on dissent on the Web. The government has created a special Internet police force, filtered foreign sites and shut down others posting politically incorrect fare.
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