A Chinese court sentenced two prominent human rights lawyers on Monday to jail terms of more than a decade each, a relative and rights groups told Reuters, the latest move in a years-long crackdown on civil society by President Xi Jinping.
in June last year on charges of state subversion at a court in Linshu county in the northeastern province of Shandong, relatives told Reuters at the time.
"Their lawyers are forbidden from publishing court verdict documents and they do not dare to reveal where they were sentenced and under what charges," she said by telephone."I will not let them put Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong in jail so easily."The court and China's justice ministry did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.in December 2019 shortly after attending a gathering in southern China with about 20 other lawyers and activists.
Authorities have barred their lawyers from contact with foreign media, Luo added, in a practice that has become increasingly common in recent years so as to stifle publicity around rights-related cases."The cruelly farcical convictions and sentences meted out to Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi show President Xi's unstinting hostility towards peaceful activism," said Yaqiu Wang, a senior China researcher at New York-based Human Rights Watch.
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