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| Subject: Chinese gulag: Innocent Chinese dissident tried on subversion Thu Dec 24, 2009 2:37 am | |
| A prominent Chinese dissident was tried on subversion charges yesterday after he called for sweeping political reforms and an end to Communist Party dominance, and his brother-in-law said a verdict would be handed down tomorrow.
Liu Xiaobo was detained a year ago, just before the release of an unusually direct appeal for political liberalisation he had helped to write called Charter 08. More than 300 people, including some of China's top intellectuals, signed before it was released.
The defendant's brother-in-law, Liu Hui, said yesterday's trial lasted about two hours and that prosecutors accused him of ''serious'' crimes. He said the verdict would come tomorrow, in what would be the latest example of authorities moving against activists around Western holidays, a pattern rights groups say is aimed at having the prosecutions avoid attention.
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