Chinese journalist gets 15 years in jail for denouncing Party corruption | RSF
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Chinese authorities to immediately release Chen Jieren, a journalist who has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for accusing Communist Party officials of corruption in his social media posts. The sentence that a people’s court in Guiyang county, in the central province of Hunan, passed on Chen on 30 April is one the harshest received by a journalist since Xi Jinping became president in 2013. Convicted of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” (...)
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