China jails dissident Liu Xiaobo for 11 years

2009/12/25 18:31:53 @Reuters: World News

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's most prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, was jailed on Friday for 11 years for campaigning for political freedoms, with the stiff sentence on a subversion charge swiftly condemned by rights groups and Washington. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=EnlFymYaZuU:dV7PV7H97ZU:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=EnlFymYaZuU:dV7PV7H97ZU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=EnlFymYaZuU:dV7PV7H97ZU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=EnlFymYaZuU:dV7PV7H97ZU:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=EnlFymYaZuU:dV7PV7H97ZU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/EnlFymYaZuU" height="1" width="1"/
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