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Urgent: Chinese lawyer gets 7 years in prison for state subversion

Xinhua, August 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

Zhou Shifeng, a lawyer formerly managing the Fengrui Law Firm, was convicted of subverting state power and sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday.

He has also been deprived of his political rights for five years, according to the No. 2 Intermediate People's Court in Tianjin, a northern port city close to Beijing.

Zhou, 52, pled guilty and said at the court he would not appeal.

The same court announced the sentences for another two men related to Zhou respectively on Tuesday and Wednesday.

More than 40 people, including lawyers and journalists from home and overseas, observed Thursday's trial. No Zhou's family members were present as he requested. Endi