Reuters reports (via The New York Times):
A Chinese activist who sought to document shoddy construction that he contended had contributed to deaths in China’s devastating 2008 earthquake has been sentenced to five years in prison for subversion, his lawyer said Tuesday.
The charges against the activist, Tan Zuoren, had nothing directly to do with his efforts on behalf of those killed in the earthquake. Instead he was accused of inciting subversion of state power because of comments he made in e-mail messages about the crackdown on June 4, 1989, on pro-democracy demonstrators around Tiananmen Square.
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