Li Changqing gets three years in prison for "alarmist information"
(Jan. 26, 2006)
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the three-year prison sentence that was passed yesterday by the Gulou district people's court in the city of Fuzhou (in the southeastern province of Fujian) on journalist Li Changqing for providing "alarmist information" to Boxun (www.boxun.com), a news website based aboard,
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A former journalist with Fuzhou Daily, Li intends to appeal, said his lawyer, Mo Shaoping. "The verdict evaded key facts and was greatly influenced by factors outside the law," Mo added. The news agency Reuters tried unsuccessfully to get further details or a comment from the court. Li's wife could not be reached yesterday.
Reporters Without Borders reiterated its call for the release of Li and the 86 other journalists and Internet users detained in China.
(boxun.com)
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