China Jails Three Anti-Corruption Activists

A court in central China has given jail terms of up to six and a half years to three activists who were part of a group urging government officials to disclose their assets.   The sentences handed down by a court in the central province of Jiangxi were the harshest yet in Beijing's year-long crackdown on the New Citizens Movement.   Liu Ping and Wei Zhongping were sentenced to six and a half years in jail after being found guilty of "disrupting public order" and...

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