China Tries Four Dissidents

Four members of a grassroots movement campaigning to root out corrupt Chinese officials have gone on trial, a day after the group's founder was sentenced to prison. The four members of the New Citizen's Movement appeared in a Beijing court Monday, charged with "gathering crowds to disrupt order." A U.S. embassy official in Beijing called on the Chinese government to release the activists immediately, and "remove restrictions" on freedoms "to which they...

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