China upholds sentence of dissident Liu Xiaobo

2010/02/10 20:14:09 @Reuters: World News

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Thursday upheld an 11-year prison sentence for prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo for writings that called for multi-party democracy -- perceived threats to the Communist Party's monopoly on power. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=EPbefKCmoeQ:8dL033e6eUc: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=EPbefKCmoeQ:8dL033e6eUc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=EPbefKCmoeQ:8dL033e6eUc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=EPbefKCmoeQ:8dL033e6eUc:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=EPbefKCmoeQ:8dL033e6eUc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/EPbefKCmoeQ" height="1" width="1"/
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