Blind Chinese Anti-Forced Abortion Activist Sentenced to Over Four Years in Prison
By John-Henry Westen BEIJING, August 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The farcical trial of 35-year-old Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human rights activist who has made known China’s brutal forced abortion practices has ended with Chen being sentenced to four years and three months in prison.ÂÂ The circumstances around the trial and the brutality exhibited by officials, or those hired by them, have demonstrated once again the tyrannical methods of the Chinese government. Chen’s supporters say his conviction on the charges of “wilful destruction of public property” and “gathering a crowd to disrupt traffic” was groundless and one of his lawyers has […]
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